Saturday, July 14, 2007

Shiprock encounters

a pufferfish that looked out of place at shiprock,
a stars-and-stripes toadfish (arothron hispidus).
apparently it is not too much out of place it's habitat ranges over the northern coasts of australia half way down into NSW and almost to perth.
grows to a max length of 50cm.

[source: guide to sea fishes of australia, by r. kuiter]










Canon G7 in canon housing, Inon Z240 with optic cable and STTL, F3.5 1/60 aperture priority AWB.

4 comments:

Joachim said...

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/177_11_021202/isb10423_fm.html

taso viglas said...

that link/page is not accessible, is it?

Joachim said...

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/
177_11_021202/isb10423_fm.html

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