Luxilus cornutus, the common shiner, is my guess for this week’s and
Two angles to show off his holiday lights.

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The mystery fish for this week's is the brook stickleback!

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The marvelous muskie, mystery fish for day 4 puzzle and crossover theme. The name muskellunge comes from the Ojibwa for “ugly pike” . The also descriptive French common name is masquinongé or “elongated mask”.

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Twofer as they say for the fourth day of and the best day of the week (yes of course I know that the lovely octopus is actually a Cephalopod..)

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Did a quick paddlefish for the "tiny eye" theme. The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) has small undeveloped eyes, so it relies on sensory receptors to track down food

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Anglerfish have adapted to crushing pressure and oppressive darkness, which seems appropriate some days

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A stonecat for today's Like many social media users, they've adapted to dangerous environments by being prickly and a bit toxic.

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A golden shiner with autumnal colors for this week's

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are back !
today it's the Banded Moray, Gymnothorax rueppellii

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A progress update of my Common Carp illustration for this week's

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When learning to identify longnose dace, I was taught to look for the "mustach" created by the dark lines on this fish's side that extend to its face. Here is a couple of my illustrations of this magnificent creature.

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🎃🎃🎃 featuring the pumpkinseed sunfish!

This cutie lives in freshwater ecosystems throughout N. America, including the Great Lakes here in MI. Retired prof, Earl Werner, studied foraging and habitat use of the pumpkinseed and other sunfish species

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Opah day 20, 21, 22
I enjoy participating and looking at everyone's efforts each week even if I haven't done a picture (been messing about with clay lately). I think I'm beginning to maybe hate these particular fish though... 2D red-blue idiots

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Today's fowl is a re-post of my Gar vs. bird illustration.

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Luminescent theme. Deep sea anglerfish & viperfish, a meeting of luminaries… 🌟 🐟

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Completely off theme for both and but wanted to do a quick sketch of the recently described Shenacanthus way back from the Silurian period.

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It's been a minute since I did a Here's my initial exploration of an anglerfish in watercolor pencil.

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