#northern snakehead

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #232

Northern snakehead!

A female of this species can lay 100 000 eggs a year! A group of northern snakeheads can double their entire population in only 15 months. They can also live several days out of water!

#fish #fish facts #fishfact #biology #zoology #aquatic #fishblr #snakehead #northern snakehead

[stevn93]

6 Years in the making

So I finally got something I have been after for about 6 years. My very first Snakehead and at 13.44 pounds and 32 inches long she was a Dragon. what a day!

#Northern snakehead

[aspyrbabes]

#uncanny #unreality #weird core #Northern Snakehead

[crevicedwelling]

last attention I’m willing to give this today:

“invasive species” is not exclusive of animals that you like and want to keep alive. I love giant centipedes, and keep them as wonderful pets, but Scolopendra subspinipes are eating lizards to extinction on Christmas Island and probably many others. if I could find a solution to the problem that involves killing centipedes to get rid of them there permanently, I would.

brown tree snakes, green iguanas, northern snakeheads, spotted lanternflies, domestic cats and pigs and horses—you can’t pick and choose who among invasives you want to allow to continue to destroy ecosystems they’re not native to. cats have eaten dozens of species to extinction and continue to devour billions of wild animals yearly, and receive help from humans to do so! I have no hatred for cats; they can’t know what they’re doing. this is a problem humans caused and it is a problem we can only fix ourselves.

[luxudus]

A Spectember art piece that took me most of the month to make. Showcasing a Batesian mimicry ring found in China some 7-10 million years in the future.

    The northern snakeheads have diversified into several families of amphibious fish that are all highly successful in the Chinese subtropics. Overall, they now possess primitive feet derived from their pectoral fin.     One such species is the Violet Deathhead (Rutrumaput pharmaphyrous). A species of semi-aquatic and semi-fossorial snakehead that uses its shovel head to dig up a wide variety of prey. What makes the Violet Deathhead stand out is its iconic purple, black, and orange patterning used to warn predators of its potent venom-tipped rays.     The Violet Deathhead's infamy would spread throughout China's ecosystem. Its colors became an iconic warning of certain death. Something so iconic it spawned a variety of mimic species, all possessing the same patterns to ward off predators.

    One of the first notable mimics isn't a snakehead or a fish altogether. But a sailfin lizard. Its ancestors rafted here from the Philippines during a particularly nasty southwest monsoon. They became so successful they spread across the entire continent.     This mimic species is known as the Shamfin Lizard (Zhonghydrosaurs purvexicauda). They are a species of arboreal herbivores with a slight tendency to feed on insects.     As their name implies, their tail takes on the same purple, black, and orange patterns used by the Violet Deathhead to present itself as such to trick predators. They even go as far as to develop fake eyespots on their back to match the model species' heads.

    With as much speciation also comes the weight of extinction. And it is no different in this ecosystem as well. During this period, many species of Cranes and herons had to migrate away from China or go extinct altogether. However, this opens a new niche for an unexpected group of birds to flourish.     The second mimic species is the prism-winged Stiltit (Hydorbaino porphypteros). They are a species of wading piscivores that descend from the white-browed tit warbler.     They retained their ancestors' coloration but now for a new purpose. It's now within their underwing and patterned in the likeness of the Violet Deathhead's sail.

    The third mimic species is the Mockfry Mawed Moth (Stekoprosteros mimeofry). They are species of flying pollinating moths that retain their proboscis into adulthood. They are surprisingly social and live in large flocks their whole lives. As their genus name suggests, their resting state has their forewings erected upward, unlike other moth species.     They possess similar colors and patterns to the Violet Deathhead but seem to mimic their species' young. The moths and fry are around the same size and live in large groups. Plus, Deathheads have their iconic coloring during their entire lives.

    The final mimic species mentioned isn't a vertebrate or even an animal. Instead, the Fool's Death (Coleus teleinephos) is a species of Eudicot flowering plant. The stem of the Fool's Death grows into an arc, with the upper stalk resting in the giant leaves of the plant's base.     The Fool's Death's signature green and purple leaves allow it to mimic the patterns of the Violet Deathhead. And since their ranges overlap the most of all the mimics. The Fool's Death is surprisingly the most effective at being a mimic as it gets avoided most of any of the mimicking species.

#my art #artist on tumblr #speculative biology #worldbuilding #spectember #speculative zoology #speculative evolution #future evolution

[archive-of-artprompts]

🧜‍♂️Send in a number + Character and I'll draw them as a mermaid based on that creature🧜‍♀️

Part 2: Friend suggested a list of more "unconventional" options

Alligator Gar

Amazon river dolphin (aka pink river dolphin)

American Lobster

Arapaima Gigas

Atlantic Wolffish

Barreleye

Bastard Sturgeon

Beluga Whale

Black Crappie

Blue Glaucus

Blue Whale

Cassiopeia Jellyfish

Chambered Nautilus

Cheerleader Crab (aka pom-pom crab)

Chromodoris

Coelacanth

Cuttlefish

Dolphin

Electric Eel

Fried-Egg Jellyfish

Giant Cuttlefish

Giant Isopod

Goliath Tigerfish

Harp Seal

Hermit Crab

Immortal Jellyfish

Leopard Seal

Manta Ray

Mantis Shrimp

Moon Jellyfish

Narwhal

Nembrotha

Northern Pike

Ocean Sunfish

Orca

Pharaoh Cuttlefish

Red-Bellied Piranha

Rainbow Trout

San Francisco Piranha

Sea Angel

Sea Bunny

Snakehead Fish

Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

Spanish Dancer Nudibranch

Spider Crab

Spotfin Frogfish

Spotted Ratfish

Stingray

Terrible Claw Lobster

Yeti Crab

#mermaid #monster prompt #creature prompt #word prompt #art prompt #art meme #character prompt

[jansfakemonzone]

i meant to post this, like, a week ago 😭😭😭😭

early game fish fakemon!! and an invasive species to boot, they love to eat basculin and quagsire 🐟

these guys are HUGE fish are based on northern snakeheads, an actual invasive species that can move between bodies of water by “walking” around on land!! you’d be able to find them all over the region, but to evolve a Scoffish you’d need to take it to a different body of water than the one it was caught in and defeat a wild scoffish or serpengulf in battle 👀

#fakemon #fakemon friday #pokemon #pokeblr #pokeblogging #water type

[sparrowmoth]

What fish nicknames do you think Floyd would give the descendents cast?

Thanks for the fun question, @valkyriefastwing! I tapped my lovely, imaginative friend @moorsgrimhilde for help answering this one. She came up with perfect answers for Mal, Carlos, and Jay, so shout out to her for that! 💖 Ultimately, we limited ourselves to the Core Four since we put so much time into thinking about this, but if anyone has any suggestions for the rest of the cast, feel free to reblog and add on! Now, on to the proposed nicknames…

Carlos would be “Hawkfish” (short for Freckled Hawkfish, because just look at him, that’s Carlos as a fish djsakgjsdkgds).

Evie would be “Sea Swallow” (another name for the Blue Glaucus or what you might call a “pseudo-venomous” sea slug).

Jay would be “Snakehead” (short for Northern Snakehead, because if ever a fish looked like a snake, well, it’s this one…)

Mal would be “Dottyback” (short for Purple Dottyback, because she’s small and purple, emphasis on small. And purple).

#valkyriefastwing #moorsgrimhilde #<3 #descendants #twisted wonderland #core four #floyd leech #the ask box

[nicxxx5]

book wish list

hi! this is different from my typical posts ig but if there's one thing i love it's making lists! here is my wish list for books that i want to get as of now

The Hate U Give; Angie Thomas

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; Erika L. Sanchez

You're Welcome Universe; Whitney Gardner

Leah on The Offbeat; Becky Albertalli

Picture us in the Light; Kelly Log Gilbert

The Red Scrolls of Magic

The Music of What Happens; Bill Konigsberg

Cupid Painted Blind; Marcus Herzig

The Dangerous Art of Blending In; Angelo Surmelis

Mexican Whiteboy; Matt de la Pena

Ball Don't Lie; Matt de la Pena

Bloom; Kevin Panetta

We Contain Multitudes; Sarah Henstra

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story; Kheryn Callender

Been Here All Along; Sandy Hall

You Asked For Perfect; Laura Silverman

The Music of Dolphins; Karen Hesse

Silence; Deborah Lytton

Accidental Love; Gary Soto

Every Day; David Levithan

Me Before You; Jojo Moyes

Artemis Fowl; Eoin Colfer

Unspoken; Sarah Rees Brennan

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell; Chris Colfer

Snakehead: Alex Rider; Anthony Horowitz

Fablehaven; Brandon Mull

Virals; Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (or the Golden Compass); Philip Pullman

The Last Apprectice/The Spook's Secret; Joseph Delaney

Disney After Dark: Kingdom Keepers; Ridley Pearson

The Thing About Jellyfish; Ali Benjamin

Pan's Labyrinth; Guillermo del Toro

History is All You Left Me; Adam Silvera

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros; Edith Hamilton

Starfish; Akemi Dawn Bowman

Mosquitoland; David Arnold

Challenger Deep; Neal Shusterman

The Ghosts we Keep; Mason Deaver

The Passing Playbook; Isaac Fitzsimons

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality; Jane Ward

Holding up the Universe; Jennifer Niven

All the Bright Places; Jennifer Niven

Renegades; Marissa Meyer

The Female of the Species; Mindy McGinnis

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Holly Jackson

Such a Fun Age; Kiley Reid

She Gets the Girl; Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derric

Kisses and Croissants; Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

Red, White and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston

The Librarian of Auschwitz; Antonio Iturbe

The Rise of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

The Shadow of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

Love and Olives; Jenna Evans Welch

The Midnight Library; Matt Haig

The Spanish Love Deception; Elena Armas

Every Word You Never Said; Jordon Greene

When We Were Lost; Kevin Wignall

The Gravity of Missing Things; Marisa Urgo

We Are The Ants; Shaun David Hutchinson

Iron Heart; Nina Varela

Coming up for Air; Nicole B. Ryndall

Unmasking Autism; Devon Price

Planting a Seed; Kate Gaertner

Period Power; Maisie Hill

Disibility Visibility; Alice Wong

Queerly Autistic; Erin Ekins

We're Not Broken; Eric Garcia

Divergent Mind; Jenara Nerenberg

Loveless; Alice Oseman

I Was Born for This; Alice Oseman

there is for sure some that i am missing so there will definitely be a part 2 to this at some point

#books #book life #bookworm #book wishlist #book list #books to read #alice oseman #rachael lippincott #matt haig #david levithan #angie thomas #jennifer niven #tag some popular authors #queer books #lgbt books #autism books #ya books #memoirs #fiction #mythology #fantasy #historical #realistic fiction #nic's things #lists #list making #autistic #putting that because yeah i think my love for making lists is one of my autistic traits

[heavensheal]

noticed you tagged that post about fish with "hyperfix" and I think that's cool. are you hyperfixing on fish because I think that's awesome /gen, tell me about fish if you wanna

HI TOAST BTW AND YES I AM!!! uhm uhm uhm so my favorite fish is called a snakehead and they're pretty neat they can briefly stay out of water to move from place to place. they're also very territorial and will attack abt anything that gets close to their nest. they're confused with bowfins a lot since they look similar but snakeheads well. Look more like a snake! and bowfins have this spot above their tails

and giant snakeheads are very cool and pretty!! like uhmmm !!

they're red when they're babies :] speaking of babies both parents stick around until they can fend for themselves!! they're really really neat and i love them a lot

northern snakeheads are invasive here in florida so it kinda sucks that if i ever saw one in person here it'd have to kill it but hey. favorite feesh

#asks!~ ❀ #hyperfix!~ ♣︎ #toasty-owoasty

[leopardsealz]

list of some of my fave creachurs for no other reason other than im autisming & making lists are so fun

mammals

felines

pinnipeds

deer (includes bootleg deer eg musk deer)

true foxes (aka vulpes genus)

moon bear

aye-aye lemur

orca

sperm whale

false killer whale

birds

peregrine

lammergeier

great skua

magnificent frigatebird

greater black-backed gull

common buzzard

golden eagle

invertebrates

wasps / hornets

spiders / tarantulas

sea slugs

dragonflies

planarians

deaths head hawk moth

cephalopods

fish

whale shark

hagfish

lampreys

sailfish

sturgeon

eels

seahorses / sea dragons

giant snakehead

northern pike

reptiles

king cobra

gaboon viper

komodo dragon

green anaconda

arabian sand boa

red-tailed green rat snake

alligator snapping turtle

gharial

amphibians

olm

hellbender

caecillians

#sam.txt #vibrating. i love animal i want everyone to know i love animal!!!!! even tho its already v obvious i love animal #special interest

[adk-almanack-mirror]

#ADK #Adirondacks #Adirondack Almanack #Adirondack Park

[susquehannatu]

PFBC DOCUMENTS INVASIVE SNAKEHEAD FISH REPRODUCTION IN LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, ADVISES ANGLERS TO REPORT AND DISPOSE OF ANY FISH CAUGHT

08/02/2023 ​HARRISBURG, Pa. (August 2) – The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today issued a strong advisory to encourage anglers who catch invasive Northern Snakeheads in the lower Susquehanna River, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth, to report and dispose of any fish caught. This advisory follows multiple Northern Snakehead captures in Conowingo Reservoir by anglers and natural…

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[maugurim3]

snakeheads

The snakeheads are members of the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae, native to parts of Africa and Asia. These elongated, predatory fish are distinguished by their long dorsal fins, large mouths, and shiny teeth. They breathe air with gills, which allows them to migrate short distances over land.

Now though these fish are known to be aggressive there are things that we can do to prevent atacks on civilans . while we try to deal with another invasive species in north americas ecosystem . 

Ponds .cannals that are in southwest and southeast are good places for the bullseye snakehead and the northern snakehead. Northern snakeheads like cool wet emviorments and are perfectly adapted to live in russiaand siberias cold winters.The Bullseye Snakehead remain centered in the Margate/Coral Springs/Pompano Beach area where it was first documented in October 2000. They will likely be limited to the southern half of Florida since temperatures below 50oF are lethal.. So the bullseye snake head is native to tropical areas that are nice and warm . this is why they dont move further in land as north america though has hot summers because it sits on the north plate we are cold .

Small children should be taught to keep an eye out for side ripples that the fish make .what a snakehead looks like and if they see one in the water to come get you or an adult in the area. As they can be quite aggresive if disturbed or hungry . not only that butthey are invasive so if your fishing and they catch one tell them that you will not release it , instead take it home and eat it  or  put it in a tank and takeit to the police sation as it is illegal to have snake head in captivity in the usa .

In 1976 the giant snake head was documented as havig been released into the environment , lucky for us they arent as aggressive compared to those of the northern and bullseye snakehead, But if you see one or catch one do not release it back into the wild . instead kill it or take it to your local police station or sheirffs office or the fish and wild life . as they know that this species along with the other two are quick breeders and can be highly aggressive if threatened cornered or just hungry. All snakeheads seem to enjoy torturing their prey . they take bites and then let their prey bleed out sometimes not even eating the fish .

#maugurim3

[smartbyte]

Invasive

An invasive fish that is a voracious predator capable of surviving out of water for days was recently caught in southeastern Missouri, causing worry that the hard-to-contain species will spread and become a problem. The northern snakehead was caught last month in a drainage pool at Duck Creek Conservation Area. The last time one of the so-called “Frankenfish” showed up in Missouri was four years…

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[stephanmacro]