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Fish ID please(large scale saury)


night_rider

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Can someone please ID this ugly sob?
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It was caught near clifton gardens on a prawn on the bottum in 20m or so.
It was about 45/50cm long, agressive in nature and had a serious set of teeth!!!

Might be a raider record? 0:)

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Sorry about the covered photo... Had it in 1 hand and then almost bloody bit me!

It was definitely a love to hate relationship from then on in.

I think you might be close with the lizard fish... This thing had a number of rows of teeth on his bottom jaw, where as the Grinners only appear to have one row that I can see?

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Scratchie,

I'm calling it a species of Lizardfish. Very similar to a Grinner, however, the Grinner has a different head and jaw shape, still has a large mouth but the Lizardfish has a bigger mouth (as in Marky's photo), and the pointy teeth.

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Scratchie,

I'm calling it a species of Lizardfish. Very similar to a Grinner, however, the Grinner has a different head and jaw shape, still has a large mouth but the Lizardfish has a bigger mouth (as in Marky's photo), and the pointy teeth.

Looks like we were both right yowie!

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Largescale-Saury-Saurida-undosquamis

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Does make it difficult when you cannot see the whole fish side on, but with these fish, they are aggressive and want to bite you.

Tell me about it, pretty strong too. Almost kicked itself loose a few times!

Don't know his name but he is holding a "Grinner".

Please, I am joking.

Cheers

Paikea

Hahaha that's hilarious.

Anyway lesson learnt. Better side one and measured photos next time. That aside, glad we were all able to learn a little more about the lizard fish family.. I didn't know they existed beyond a grinner... !

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