The Numbfish is well known to divers. The fish often hides under the sand from where it can deliver a powerful electric shock to anyone who touches it. People sometimes see dead Numbfish washed up on the beach.
A Numbfish partially buried in the sand
Numbfish, Hypnos monopterygium
A Numbfish at Shiprock, Port Hacking
A gilled leech beside the nostril of a Numbfish
Numbfish with its terminal meal
Numbfish buried in sand
A Numbfish with a rat protruding from the fish's gut
Rat protruding from Numbfish's gut
A Numbfish on the beach at Greenpatch
A Numbfish on the beach
A Numbfish on the beach at Greenpatch, Jervis Bay
