#sarcastic fringehead

[montereybayaquarium]

“Yay. Monday,” the fringehead said sarcastically.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #558

Sarcastic fringehead!

They get their name from their temperament and the fringe-like appendages on their heads! They’re best-known for their large jaws which they’ll open wide and press against their competitor’s similarly open mouth during territorial battles.

[nazrigar]

Mermay 2022: Biology Influenced Merfolk

Hey there folks! If you've been following my twitter and instagram, for this Mermay, my theme is to basically take inspiration from real life biology, and apply them to their design as merfolk... especially their wicked set of chompers. It got so popular on Insta, I even made backstories for their designs there xD.

You can read up more about their stories on my Insta, but the gist is this: Kara is a Great White Shark mermaid, and she does her best to look out for her sister, a Lamprey. She lives in a town full of quirky characters, whose merfolk come from multiple kinds of fish and critters of the sea.

[fish-daily]

Sarcastic fringehead?

fish 110 - sarcastic fringehead

[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today's wet beast is: Sarcastic Fringehead

Olive's Wet Beast Fact: these weirdos are very aggressively territorial. When two of them have beef, they fight by pressing their distended mouths against each other, making it look like they're kissing

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

[todaysfish]

Okay team, today’s fish is Neoclinus blanchardi, the sarcastic fringehead.

The first fact I have for you is that when threatened they look like this:

Great, I’ve got your attention.

Okay, so sarcastic fringeheads are blennies that live off the west coast of North America, they’re only about a foot long, and they DON’T HAVE SCALES.

This scale-less-ness is actually quite normal for fish in their family, Chaenopsidae, who also don’t have a lateral line as most fish do. Normally, lateral lines allow fish to orientate themselves in a water current, and give them information about their spatial environment via several thousand sensory organs, the neuromasts.

But anyway, blennioids (yes, that’s a word: it’s the blennies) in the family Chaenopsidae don’t have lateral lines, so we’ll learn about those later.

So why, you ask, that ridiculous face?

First of all, rude. It’s a majestic face! Those draping skin flaps! Those enraptured eyes!

All that skin is for face-offs between fringeheads to compare sizes; when threatened by another fringehead for mating partners or dens, these spectacular little blennioids open their jaws to compare size.

The goal with this face-off is to avoid a fight where one could be injured; however, if that’s not worked out in the face-off, they will start to push each other. With their big open mouths.

Sounds a little gay

Thanks for the gif, @montereybayaquarium 😍

[melanirana]

GUYS!

I need to show you a fish.

Look at this fish, looks like a normal fish a bit deerpy but still normal right?

(for the tension)

WRONG!

this is a Sarcastic Fringehead. Wnat to know how they fight? Thats right. A mouth measuring Contest.

I love them and their mouths and I need you to be aware of him.

The amount of missed out cool/terrifying/deerpy Monster designs that could have been had. Do you see why I need you to be aware of him?

Split jaw is cool and all but what about extendo jaw. I need more Monsters with this jaw!

[troutreznor]

look at this fish ok wait

do you see it? really look at it hold on

do you know what his name is? he's a real fish

what a fucking emo loser fa-

BLAAAALAALALALAAAAAAAARRRGHHGG

AHHHHHHHHH Ohhaha just kidding

mwah 💚

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Alternative Mermay #13: Sarcastic Fringehead with legs (is ready for the mosh pit)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Sarcastic fringehead

Photographer: © Getty

[traggalicious]

Yeah no i wasnt done w/ the last one HAHA. Typing slow as fuck rn for NO REASON *shakes fist at God* so. Not much of that ):

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #275

Sarcastic fringehead!

This fish is able to expand its mouth extremely wide! Males use this feature to have territorial battles: they'll wrestle by pressing their mouths together.

Sarcastic fringeheads are seldom shown in their "non-expanded" mouth form, so here's one as well!

[jellyfish-scientist]

Fact 2/4:

There’s a species of fish, the sarcastic fringehead, which is said to be scary, but the way they fight it funny to me. They’re an extremely territorial species, and their fighting style is widening their mouths and just slamming their faces into each other. Ngl idk how to explain it other than that

[bumble-t3a]

Day 18 is the sarcastic fringehead

[todaysfish]

Okay everyone making Creatures in the sarcastic fringehead tag you’re very talented artists but I’m gonna have nightmares about those thanks.

[make-this-into-a-pokemon]

Sarcastic Fringehead

I mean, this looks kinda scary but I'm sure nintendo can figure it out