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While filleting some dolphin fish today I found that they were full of these baby "eel" looking type fish.

To me they looked like baby Hairtail.... they were silver and had a fair set of teeth on them for little fella's.

Does anyone know what they are?

I've never seen anything like them before.

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I was reading an article on dollies about 4 months ago in a magazine, all the photos of the inards included those little eel things, i have no idea.

cheers james

Some type of sand eel would be my guess.

Greg

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From the comment that they had teeth they might be a type Lamprey

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Its hard to tell from the photo though.

I'm sure Flattieman will know what they are!

Jason

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Well, CFD seems to know that those fish look like, njsconst :biggrin2: . I'm quite sure that these long, eel-like prey items are often juvenile scabbardfish/ribbonfish (Lepidopus caudatus). The adults of this species appear incredibly similar to hairtail (excepting, of course, the filamentous tail). Here's a pic from fishbase:

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The juveniles vary in morphology:

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The likeness to hairtail might explain why you thought that the fish were juvenile hairtail, njsconst. Oarfish don't have teeth - hence the name "king of herrings" that is often applied to these massive fish.

Hope this helps,

Flattieman.

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i found them once in two 10kg DOllys i got, no one could identify them, i believe they may be oarfish or bandfish. Who knows. They looked like this.

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i found them once in two 10kg DOllys i got, no one could identify them, i believe they may be oarfish or bandfish. Who knows. They looked like this.

Reely,

Yep they are the same buggers that were in my ones today.

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