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RockaFowler

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Thu Jan 12, 2012, 12:03 PM Jan 2012

Found on the Atlantic Ocean Shores in Palm Beach County

Is it Newt??




Palm Beach Atlantic University biology professor Ray Waldner, an ichthyologist, said the fish is probably an oarfish – a fish in a family by itself, the longest of the bony fishes.

It could also be a “dealfish,” Waldner said.

The fins of the fish in Hoffman’s photos do not match an oarfish precisely, Waldner said, but they could have been worn down in the surf.

“It’s not that rare to have one of these things wash up on the beach,” Waldner said.

When oarfish do wash up, they usually have a hole in their sides, Waldner said. That’s because the ribbon-shaped fish are often gored through the side by billfish.

If the fish is an oarfish, it’s actually a small one, Waldner said. Oarfish are common to 26 feet long and have been found to grow as long as 56 feet.


Read more: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_s_palm_beach_county/delray_beach/weird-sea-critter-washes-up-in-delray-beach-likely-an-oarfish-biology-professor-says#ixzz1jGDAZrbg

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