Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Best of Mike #210

Smooth Trunkfish are just a little on the peculiar side.

Their body that looks like something of a cross between a box and a triangle.... is covered with boney plates rather than scales. 

They swim by using their small dorsal and anal fins.... moving them in a rotary motion.

I bet you will think "helicopter".... as you watch them move about the reef.

To find food.... they blow jets of water at the ocean floor to uncover the organisms that are hidden there.

But somebody thinks they are good looking.... as the males will often have a harem of females in their large territories.

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