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ratfish (it counts as a shark)

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2022-08-13

Members of class chondrichthyes! Here we have a Little Skate, Spotted Ratfish, Short-Tail Stingray, and Tiger Shark!

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2022-06-06

Belantsea, a tiny cartilaginous ratfish (Holocephali) from Bear Gulch, Montana. It was an agile reef fish with a beak of "fangs". It's unclear whether it moved like a tang, frogfish, or stingray given enlarged fins and flattened fossils

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2022-05-05

Harpagofututor, another Carboniferous "eel" related to ratfish/ghost sharks (Holocephali), with toothplates for shell-crushing. The name ("grappling hook copulator") is for the males' head-clasper "antlers", which females bit during mating! (Nix Illustration)

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2022-04-24

A commission from , 2 picrews, and another Ratfish for good measure!

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2020-07-14

Decided to try and compile all the content for my Epithet Erased OC/Anime Campaign RPG char, Vincent Insignia, into one thread! Starting off with some character cards, using art by and a modified template by
(Also a Ratfish for twitter image symmetry)

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2020-07-15

Who are you calling a ratfish? Celebrate Ghost Sharks (aka Chimaeras) October 30 👻🦈 https://t.co/dMT6j0O8Ht

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2019-10-31

Today is 👻🦈 Find out more about the fascinating, egglaying, deep-sea inhabiting chimaeras (also known as ratfish, rabbitfish, or ghost sharks) through this blog! https://t.co/Q7xsamNDLP

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2019-10-30

So I really wanted to do Freya, but wasn’t sure what fish to do. I wanted to do a shark but then I typed in rat fish for kicks, and there is one!!!! So Freya is a Ratfish/chimera/ghostshark.

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2019-05-05

Did you know that Spotted Ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) have a RETRACTIBLE BARBED PROTRUSION ON THEIR FOREHEAD TO HELP THEM HOLD ON WHEN MATING?!

This has to be one of the coolest adaptations I've ever heard of!



©Jacqui Engel

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2019-03-28

Spotted ratfish are among the deepest-living fishes in Monterey Bay.
They are related to sharks and are considered the missing link between the bony and cartilainous fishes because they have the characteristics of both.
📷MBA/Tristan Blaine/Joseph R. Tomelleri/Eiko Jones

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2019-02-24

Edestus, a Paleozoic "shark" w/ scissor bite related to ratfishes instead of living sharks. Pic by

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2017-06-29