Northern clingfish?
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:00 pm
This weekend, I was diving with dry suit students, and I found a fish I had never seen before. I had a strong suspicion what it was, but when I got home and looked in the books, nothing I saw had the same tail -- and the tail was distinctive.
Tonight, we went back to Cove 2, and my intention was to find the spot and photograph the fish, if it was there -- which, if it was what I thought it was, it might very well be. Unfortunately, I got a phone call just as we arrived that gave me horrible news, so I spent the next hour and a half curled up in the fetal position in the truck, while Peter played guide for the other folks who had shown up for this Moss Bay dive. The good news is that he found the fish, and photographed it beautifully:
I'm pretty sure this is a Northern Clingfish, although the markings are much lighter than any of the clingfish photos I was able to find.
Tonight, we went back to Cove 2, and my intention was to find the spot and photograph the fish, if it was there -- which, if it was what I thought it was, it might very well be. Unfortunately, I got a phone call just as we arrived that gave me horrible news, so I spent the next hour and a half curled up in the fetal position in the truck, while Peter played guide for the other folks who had shown up for this Moss Bay dive. The good news is that he found the fish, and photographed it beautifully:
I'm pretty sure this is a Northern Clingfish, although the markings are much lighter than any of the clingfish photos I was able to find.