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Oarfish oarfish
Washed up on the shore fish
Far too big to keep fish
From growing in the deep fish
#SundayFishSketch
...and for THIS week’s #sundayfishsketch, here’s a big, beautiful Pacific white shark affectionately known as Scar Girl. Haha thanks @Lampichthys for helping me get my calendar straight!! #sciart
Fishes with scientific tautonyms - the rattail (trachyrinchus trachyrinchus) for this week's #SundayFishSketch
In honor of one of my favorite scientific tautonyms (where the generic + specific names are the same), the wonderfully grumpy Lota lota, or burbot #SundayFishSketch @GrumpyBurbot
Nothing sketchy about today's #SundayFishSketch from @Roger_ROKK. Literally nothing—it's not a sketch. Pretty painty, however. And very, very fishy... #SundayFishyPainty
Learned today that several species of #wrasse use tools! Fascinated by their body shapes/movements while they fan away sand to find food, then take the food and bash it against a rock "anvil." (Choerodon anchorago) #SundayFishSketch #SciArt #Watercolor
Highlights from the stream, a #SundayFishSketch with Leedsichthys, swimming Avaceratops (with hybodont), courting Dimorphodon and Icarosaurus in a storm. #sciart #paleoart
Happy #SundayFishSketch
I've always loved these guys.
#Sundayfishsketch why is the mighty Xiphactinus upside down? Because @Mosasaurologist does not like Xiphactinus, that’s why. Stay tuned for the full #paleoart to be featured in the #SavageAncientSeas exhibit by Triebold Paleontology - coming soon to a museum (hopefully) near you.
Another #SundayFishSketch! This time Eomesodon, a beast that was able to grow surprisingly huge for a pycnodont. I saw a original in Solnhofen, especially impressive because one is able to the the sculpture of the scales which are usually too small to notice. #Paleoart #Sciart
Working off more of my @zsllondonzoo photos, here is Mesonauta festivus (Thanks to @gorshling for the ID) another cichlid! Due to time constraints, the piece went from twelve fish to eight fish to six fish, but at least there's a background for once! #SundayFishSketch #sciart
Pale deep sea lizardfish: the monotype that says it all. #SundayFishSketch
In between unpacking boxes, did a quick #SundayFishSketch of the sole member of the family Amiidae: the great grinnel, classy choupique - most commonly known as the beautiful bowfin!
#SundayFishSketch Epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum. (Much more practice needed with colored pencils!)
Since I drew a bloodfin tetra, I feel it only appropriate to share the other #sciart I have made with this species! A cleared and stained bloodfin tetra to go with my #SundayFishSketch #anatomy
My last #SundayFishSketch of 2017. A lucky fish to start 2018 on #FishYearsEve! Carassius auratus, the common "not so gold" goldfish. #HappyNewYear #Ichthyology
Scalacurvichthys naishi painting no. 2 done and dusted, only two days late for #SundayFishSketch
@TetZoo should find this one interesting
A very late #SundayFishSketch of a marvelous, magnificent mudskipper. #artadventcalendar
#SundayFishSketch, my best shot at a Chrysiptera hemicyanea. A pomacentrid, as prompted by @Lampichthys. #sciart #Ichthyology #BiologyAsArt