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Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World becomes Catfish's World when I added a walking catfish for the challenge.
She looks a bit like a seal though. 😏

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2020-04-26

Epinephelus amblycephalus. Inhabits deeper offshore reefs; distinguished by 5 dark bars on body; NW Australia & throughout SE Asia; mainly Indo-Australian Archipelago; to 45 cm.

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2020-04-26

Presenting the splendid toadfish for mid week look at the lovely yellow on the fins!! Sadly, IUCN listed as endangered due to pollution/overfishing
Also: all toadfishes are splendid

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2020-04-23

This week has been hyper stressful, but here I am trying to catch up with the The blobfish ,Psychrolutes marcidus, lives at depths from 600 to 1200 meters. They are extremely adapted to high pressures, having gelatinous flesh and neutral buoyancy.

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2020-04-22

Today, for I illustrated another set of fish jaws to add to my growing collection! Pterycombus petersii, the prickly fanfish!

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2020-04-20

My ugly fish for this is the goblin shark, or is it the plastic packets?? 🤣

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2020-04-19

Glad I work with zebrafish and not this guy

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2020-04-13

For the "Quarantine Fish" I present you the bowfin, the master of work/family balance. If you identify to it, take a deep breath, It will be ok!

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2020-04-12

Another is this week. Thanks for the suggestion and congrats on your defense!! keep the suggestions coming!

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2020-04-12

A cow for my partner's birthday and a cowfish for

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2020-04-06

Juvenile frogfish - my significant other thought I was sketching a Doritos 😂😂😂

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2020-04-05

A painting of a Ribbon Eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) larvae from today's baby pics edition of from images taken by D. Zupanc at the Vienna Zoo.

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2020-04-05

One nice thing about moving house last week is rediscovering things like this - a picture of a fish I made in preschool, aged 5yrs 😄

...I think those discoloured things in the ‘coral’ are meant to be crabs 🦀

Crayon and watercolour. 🐟

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2020-03-31

Not my best, but this is a I made for yesterday. This is one of six (?) species of

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2020-03-30

Started learning a new set of fish species... can anyone guess where these damselfish are from? 😉

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2020-03-30

Two unusually shaped fish from memory for I would do more with inkpens, but my 0.05 died and wont be replaced until wednsday.

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2020-03-29

For this Wednesday's I drew the Snail Darter (Percina tanasi). The Snail darter has gone from "endangered" to "threatened" relatively recently. Keep up the good work little fish!

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2020-03-26