#lampriformity

[phantomeros]

coloured this one :) (she/they for character)

[herpsandbirds]

Opah or Moonfish (Lampris guttatus), family Lampridae, order Lampriformes, found in oceans around the world

This fish is capable of whole body endothermy (warm-bloodedness).

This is the only fish that is known to be capable of this. Some other fishes, like tunas and some sharks, are capable of "regional endothermy".

photograph by Ralph Pace (NOAA Fisheries)

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Lampriformes. This order is made up of opahs (also known as moonfish or sunfish) and their relatives, such as oarfish, crestfishes, and ribbonfishes

Stomiiformes. This order is made up of deep-sea fishes. It includes dragonfishes, loosejaws, viperfishes, and bristlemouths, the most populated family of vertebrates, with population numbering in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions.

[bigoldeels]

opah 🌕 (lampris guttatus)

[amcattos]

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Opawh

Yet another cattofish because people keep suggesting fish to me and I keep listening. Opah (or moonfish) is the common name given to fish in the small family Lampridae. They are unique among fish in that they can maintain the core of their body up to 5 °C higher than the surrounding water. Very little else is known of their biology and ecology but they are thought to be solitary and live out in the open ocean at depths of 50 to 500 m.

[marlindotzip]

Lampriformes

[marinebiologyshitposts]

FISH KIN: @lampriformity, your fish kin is...

Lampris guttatus, the Opah! Now, I do personally think it's cheating to assign you a lampriforme, because like. It is literally in your name, but I just couldn't resist this guy- and how could I? The Opah is a discoid pelagic ray-finned fish closely related to the Oarfish, probably one of the best-known Lampriformes! The Lampriformes shaped like the Opah are called "bathysomes", where the longer, slimmer ones are called "taeniosomes"- translating to "deep-bodied" and "ribbon-bodied" respectively! While the Opah is kinda an odd-man-out among the Lampriformes, given its unusual shape, the fossil record shows that MOST prehistoric Lampriformes were bathysomes- and it's only relatively recently that they started getting stretched longer! Thank you so much for your donation!

[rachedurst]

TAG GAME: Ten People I'd Like to Know Better

Tagged by @kontadodju ! Ty!

Last Song: 炜WARD ROMANCE / Weiward romance by Flavor Foley! I wanted to hear the fucking "I just didn't think it'd be chinese is all" sample in the end again. funny as hell. let it be known my gf associates this song with Hong Lu/Bao yu really hard

Favorite Color: Red! Although I switch between Red, indigo and purple regularly...

Last Movie: Tokyo Godfathers. My gf wanted to watch it as a christmas movie :) I quite enjoyed it. I've been looking at the artstyle because I really like how the east asian ethnic traits are drawn - they look like they're actually asian unlike a lot of anime characters imo. So I wanna see if I can integrate that in my art too....

Last Book: Excluding academic books for class, for leisurely time I've been reading 20.000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne for my take on Captain Nemo. I haven't had the time or motivation to continue though so It's a slow progress but I like it a lot, it's interesting to me how like. progressive a lot of these sailor-set books are for the time they were released, looking at this and moby dick.... They have plethoras of issues but they're way more well intentioned than one would think

Sweet, Spicy or Savory: Spicy..... Spicy beloved......

Last Thing I Googled: "Danganronpa fan executions", I saw a youtube thumbnail with that one makoto fan execution and had like. visceral flashbacks to when I saw those when I was a kid obsessing over danganronpa and thought that fanart row was so good. And it still is! Turns out it's from a SDR2 official fanbook, and the artist is Orima.

Current Obsession: I'm like trying so hard not to fixate on Danganronpa but I've been thinking about it and had the urge to redesign it and do my take on it so bad. But I shan't, I have to keep focused on Uni and the art i have to get done for comms and the game im working on....

Looking Forward To (but nervous about): Next month I'm in the US to visit my gf and meet their parents! As I will have to be stealthing and their parents also suck I am quite nervous about failing in interacting with them. But I shall do my best pretending were a cishet couple ORZ

Tagging (no pressure, just ignore this if you don't like tag games): @andromedako @horrocious @cherophobic-worm @devivi-lish @felikatze @burninghubris @lampriformity @leomidas @liolowell @bunniesfield @sharkgirldick

[sleepyfins]

Fishtober Day 5 - Opah/Moonfish

Check out the creator! ^ [@/fishiscrazy]

Today's fish is the Opah. I was really impressed that there was a colouring sheet for such an elusive fish, but there is!

Opahs are actually pretty cool fish. Firstly, they're warm blooded despite living in cold waters, like some species of shark and tuna.

Their gills intake cold water, which chills the blood near those vessels. Those same vessels pass by others, heating up their blood. This warm blood is pumped around their body, heating up their cooled blood.

Secondly, they grow pretty large because of this, up to seven feet long. This enables them to school with tuna. They eat small fish, squid and krill. Thirdly, they're related to Giant Oarfish - both are in the order Lampriformes - which are just beasts. I love them.

Thank you to everyone who interacts! I know I don't really do typical content so I appreciate every like/reblog ^^!!!

[greygrem]

finally getting around to working on the little beans

@lampriformity @sylph--co @vivienna-vivid your guys were the first 3 done! yippee!!

the rest of them are getting finished :D 👍

[nailgunstigmata]

ok i drew dennis as an oarfish. when ur girlfriend is a large, greatly elongated, pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the small family Regalecidae

[phantomeros]

Lion animal vs lion-transmuted human anatomical differences

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Lampriformes. This order is made up of opahs (also known as moonfish or sunfish) and their relatives, such as oarfish, crestfishes, and ribbonfishes

Stylephoriformes. This order is made up of one species of fish, the Stylephorus chordatus or tube-eye, an extremely elongated deep-sea fish.

[molabuddy]

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[cultofthorns]

NAUTILUS BOY

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Fun fact: Moonfish are the only known fish to exhibit whole body endothermy, meaning they maintain their body at a constant temperature- in this case, about 5 degrees Celsius. In addition, although this fish maintains its own temperature, it is not a homeotherm like many other endotherms; instead, the internal temperature of an Opah will change in accordance with the surrounding ocean temperature.

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Opahs (also commonly known as moonfish) are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fishes comprising the small family Lampridae. Its squat body and flimsy-looking pectoral fins may not scream speed-demon, but the opah is actually quite fast, and can run with the big boys like tuna and swordfish. That’s just one of many surprising revelations coming to light as more of these mysterious fish appear unexpectedly in scientific surveys along the southern California coast. This unexplained surge is enabling researchers to study and photograph the camera-shy creatures. While documenting a fishing survey, photographer Ralph Pace caught the roughly 130-pound (59-kilogram) fish on camera off the southern California coast in November 2014.