What is dis?

[fishoutawater]

A friend forwarded an email with pics of critters that washed up after the tsunami, and this one is unique (to me anyway). I've never seen anything like it.
Anybody know?

 

[Uncle Pug]

Looks like some kind of fishoutawater.

 

[mempilot]

It looks like a Chimera (sp?), but those pics of animals that washed up on shore after the tsunami are a hoax. They stole some pics from a research site.

 

[Vie]

It is indeed a chimaera. Probably one kind of the family Rhinochimaeridae or longnose chimaeras, aka spookfishes. There are three genera (Rhinochimaera, Harriotta, and Neoharriotta) and perhaps six species. They can be found in deep waters of continental slopes and the bottom of most oceans. The post-tsunami “washed up creatures” e-mails are hoaxes. see below.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp

 

[Walter]

That particular pic was posted here months ago.

 

[Vie]

That particular pic was posted here months ago.

Indeed.

http://www.scubaboard.com/t85064-.html

 

[H2Andy]

yeah... here's a page of purported weird fish washed ashore after the tsunami.
this one is listed as a "chimera pup:"

http://www.tcnj.edu/~hofmann/humor/Misc/WeirdFish/weirdfish.htm

according to Archman, ace marine biologist, these are stolen pics from the
NORFANZ expedition:

http://scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=85064

and sure enough, here is this same picture at the NORFAZ site, called
a "Long-nosed chimaera pup:"

http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/library9.htm

(scroll down halfway down or so)

 

[H2Andy]

Looks like some kind of fishoutawater.

Uncle kills me...

 

[fishoutawater]

"fishoutawater" yer killin me Uncle Pug! (I only look like that after a night at Senor Frogs.) :11ztongue
Thanks for clearing me up on the hoax thing.

 

[ScubaFreak]

cute 'lil thing...