whalefish

Cetomimidae, a type of whalefish, had been known since the 19th century, but only females had been found.

January 23rd, 2009 m_francis 2009

Cetomimidae, a type of whalefish, had been known since the 19th century, but only females had been found.

three fish, one and the same | clusterflock 2009

An interesting case where male, female, and larval forms of deep-sea whalefish were separated into three different families, and now resolved.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Cetomimidae, a type of whalefish, had been known since the 19th century, but only females had been found.

three fish, one and the same | clusterflock 2009

There's a whale, there's a whale, there's a whalefish, he cried

Greenland Whale Fisheries Gilbert/Hays/Hellerman/Seeger 1986

"Leviathan is the great whalefish or seadragon, so called of the fast joyning together of his scales as he is described Job 40: 20, 41 and is used to resemble great tyrants."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

A bignose fish is a male whalefish, and the tapetails and hairyfish are the larvae.

James Randi Educational Foundation 2009

The larval whalefish are even stranger (upper image with inset of body in close-up).

Ugly Overload 2009

Male (lower image, top) and female (lower image, bottom) whalefish look so different that researchers have only now recognized that the two belong in the same family.

Ugly Overload 2009

Three deep-sea fish that few people ever see: the bignose fish, the whalefish, and the tapetails (including hairyfish) were studied.

James Randi Educational Foundation 2009