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Offline KP-Skagit

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2023, 10:07:11 AM »
Sure has some greenling characteristics but the head/mouth is wrong among other things. And the story implies it was a sucker of some type, not like a greenling. It looks like a flatfish that is just starting to turn over as it matures. I would be curious to hear overall size.

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2023, 10:33:52 AM »
It's a kelp greenling, but it sure looks like a bullhead catfish too.  :dunno:

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #17 on: September 22, 2023, 11:41:42 AM »
The lower half indicates more like a kelp greenling as everybody has pointed out, but the head looks like a mutation!

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #18 on: September 22, 2023, 11:54:44 AM »
Sure has some greenling characteristics but the head/mouth is wrong among other things. And the story implies it was a sucker of some type, not like a greenling. It looks like a flatfish that is just starting to turn over as it matures. I would be curious to hear overall size.

I agree with KP.

At a glance it looks 'greenlingish', but several features are unlike any greenling I've ever seen. It would have to be severely mutated.

If it's from near the Port of Tacoma or any other super-fund site that could explain a lot.

Looks more like a weird tomcod to me.
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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #19 on: September 22, 2023, 12:11:58 PM »
Is it a Lingreen?  :dunno:

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2023, 03:45:35 PM »
It looks like a burbot, not sure why it would be in saltwater though.
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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2023, 09:53:25 PM »
 Nope, keep guessing!
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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2023, 07:03:38 AM »
Looks kinda like a monkey face prickleback eel but it isn't one.

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2023, 08:18:18 AM »
Catfish?
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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2023, 08:30:28 PM »
Looks like a yellow catfish.  But hard to tell from the photo. 

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2023, 09:12:58 PM »
Still thinking bobcat.....

If not maybe a young halibut?
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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #26 on: September 23, 2023, 09:27:44 PM »
Corn speckled brown trout?
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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #27 on: September 23, 2023, 10:52:34 PM »
Snailfish?

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2023, 06:35:16 AM »
Red brotula.

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Re: Guess The Specie
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2023, 08:26:24 AM »
I don't know. I went through this list https://www.eopugetsound.org/sites/default/files/features/resources/FishesoftheSalishSea_Pietsch_and_Orr.pdf
and tried to look up any thing I thought had a chance. Closest I could come up with was a 'prowfish', but there seem to be significant differences there too.



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