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Archive for February, 2010

It is a wolf herring

Unidentified fishWell, it took a while, but I finally have a name for the previously-unidentified fish I caught up at Hinchenbrook in Queensland. It’s a Dorab Wolf Herring! And a pretty big one at that - they grow to 1 metre in length but are rarely seen bigger than 80 centimetres, according the Australian Museum.

(As an aside, have you ever checked out the Australian Museum website? I thoroughly recommend it. It’s simply awesome - http://australianmuseum.net.au)

Anyway, the only reason I found out was thanks to the fabbo people in the Australia group at Saltwater Index. Big thanks to E-Rik and Paul. I have been wondering about this one for almost three years now!

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