Image: Dissection of a Bluespotted Flathead - Gonads & Kidneys
The fish is a male. The two long pale organs are the testes, the male gonads. The deep red strips of tissue either side of the backbone are the kidneys.
- Photographer:
- Mark McGrouther
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Bluespotted Flathead
- Scientific name:
- Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus
- Family:
- Platycephalidae
- Order:
- Scorpaeniformes
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Tags Fishes, Ichthyology, Kidney, Gonad, Dissection, Bluespotted Flathead, Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus, Platycephalidae,