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Topic: sarcastic fringehead?  (Read 756 times)

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NowhereMan

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I was fishing in about 60' of water near Capitola on Thursday, and I caught this super-aggressive little guy:



Is it a sarcastic fringehead? It looks similar, but not exactly like the pictures I've seen of SFs. This fish seems to have a forked tail, whereas the tail on the SF is rounded. Also, while this fish does have a big mouth, I don't see the huge "double jointed" sort of thing that the SF is famous for:

http://io9.com/5911216/meet-the-sarcastic-fringehead-an-oddly-named-fish-who-looks-like-the-predator

Btw, Milton Love, author of Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast, says that the sarcastic fringehead should be the state fish of California. I don't know about that, but it would sure be a good mascot for this forum...
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Hard to tell just from that video, but could be a one-spot fringehead. They don't have forked tails either, but from what I could see in the video it kind of looked like the tail was split rather than forked.

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That's probably it---it definitely had the one spot as in this picture:

http://www.coldwatermarineaquatics.com/products/copy-of-onespot-fringehead-neoclinus-uninotatus-1

The tail is clearly split, but as you say, that might have just been due to damage.
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