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Image: A Sharptail Sunfish from Honjo, Japan
Description
A Sharptail Sunfish that was washed up on a beach at Honjo, Akita Prefecture, north-western Honshu, Japan, January 2005.
- Photographer:
- Hideki Sugiyama
- Rights:
- © Hideki Sugiyama
- Common name:
- Sharptail Sunfish
- Scientific name:
- Masturus lanceolatus
- Family:
- Molidae
- Order:
- Tetraodontiformes
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2 comments
Mark McGrouther
1.07 PM, 19 July 2010
Hi Ian, Thank you very much for submitting the photograph. I really appreciate your input. It's always great to be able to confirm species distributions with good photographs such as yours. It is an impressive fish. I wonder why it died. The body appears to be in reasonable condition (apart from the obvious fact that it isn't alive).
ianane
9.07 PM, 15 July 2010
Sharptailed Sunfish washed up half way between Balgowan and Chinaman Wells, Yorke Peninsular, South Australia,26/08/2009. 1800mm from tip of tail to tip of snout and 2100mm from tip of dorsal fin to tip of anal fin.
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