Image: Warty Prowfish at Popes Eye
A Warty Prowfish, Aetapcus maculatus, at Popes Eye, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, 30 March 1988. Note the cloud of milky fluid being ejected from near the opercular opening.
- Photographer:
- Bill Boyle
- Rights:
- © Bill Boyle
- Common name:
- Warty Prowfish
- Scientific name:
- Aetapcus maculatus
- Family:
- Pataecidae
- Order:
- Scorpaeniformes
Additional information
This image shows the fish after it had ejected a larger cloud of fluid (top right image) and then quickly swum down to the bottom.
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Aetapcus maculatus, Warty Prowfish, Pataecidae,
