Flathead Perch是一条非常不寻常的鱼,借助Anna&Ned Deloach,刚刚获得了巨大的自然范围。Blenny Watcher的夫妻团队经常记录highly noteworthy marinelife他们最近的荣誉将大大增加海洋地区,我们可以期望找到一种非常稀有且难以捉摸的鱼类。
With its flattened face, elongated body and slightly upturned mouth, the flathead perch is like the platypus of rare reef fish. This unusual shape isRainfordia’sadaptation to living deep within the matrix of the reef structure from which it never strays – to find this fish, you really need to get your face deep into the reef and be in the right place at the right time.
Normally thatplacewould be coastal Australia but Ned & crew spotted this species all the way in Raja Ampat Indonesia, over 2,000 kilometers away! With so many islands and habitat in between the Bird’s Head peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia and Queensland Australia including Papua New Guinea, it’s very possible that this species occurs in the Coral Triangle and heck, might be even more common in some places that aren’t frequented by intrepid fish spotters like Anna & Ned DeLoach. [Blenny Watcher]