Does anyone knows a fish that looks like it has arthropod-like legs?
The legs are actually long rays of the pectoral fins, free of membrane between them.
I'm almost certain that I saw on TV once a fish that was like this, and I found some somewhat similar, but not yet quite what I recall seeing.
The similar fishes I found on the internet are:
sea robin/red gurnard(Chelidonichthys spinosus) (click to see a picture)
Which is somewhat like what I have in mind, although with shorter "legs".
But this fish is related to this other one:
Flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis)
Which has a wider "wingspan", also "waks" on the bottom of the water, but the fins with the largest span are not free of membranes.
What I had in mind would have more or less (perhaps a bit less) the ray span of the latter, but free of membrane, like the first one.
It was somewhat shocking when I saw it on TV, looked like a bizarre chimera, a mixture of a scorpion fish and a spider crab, or at least a decorator crab which took a dead scorpion fish as a covering.
However, perhaps it was just the first one in a different angle or close up, and the shock effect plus the time past (I saw it last year or earlier) made me create false memories... but could be that something like it actually exists.... I looked in all scorpioniformes on the wikipedia and searched for more pictures, but found none looking like this "crosbreed" between these two.
(I do not remember in which program I saw it, but I´m pretty sure it wasn't in one of those with fictitious animals)
The legs are actually long rays of the pectoral fins, free of membrane between them.
I'm almost certain that I saw on TV once a fish that was like this, and I found some somewhat similar, but not yet quite what I recall seeing.
The similar fishes I found on the internet are:
sea robin/red gurnard(Chelidonichthys spinosus) (click to see a picture)
Which is somewhat like what I have in mind, although with shorter "legs".
But this fish is related to this other one:
Flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis)
Which has a wider "wingspan", also "waks" on the bottom of the water, but the fins with the largest span are not free of membranes.
What I had in mind would have more or less (perhaps a bit less) the ray span of the latter, but free of membrane, like the first one.
It was somewhat shocking when I saw it on TV, looked like a bizarre chimera, a mixture of a scorpion fish and a spider crab, or at least a decorator crab which took a dead scorpion fish as a covering.
However, perhaps it was just the first one in a different angle or close up, and the shock effect plus the time past (I saw it last year or earlier) made me create false memories... but could be that something like it actually exists.... I looked in all scorpioniformes on the wikipedia and searched for more pictures, but found none looking like this "crosbreed" between these two.
(I do not remember in which program I saw it, but I´m pretty sure it wasn't in one of those with fictitious animals)
wasn't this one, but this is surely as impressive or even more!
