This gold, 14-inch-long fish is one critter you do not want to mess with! It has fused, very-sharp teeth, and can bite off an entire chunk of the reef or live coral for food. They are called file-fish ...
A scribbled filefish in a sea of plastics sampled in surface slicks off Hawai'i Island. Image may only be used with appropriate caption and credit.
IN view of the paucity of records of the globefish, Lagocephalus lagocephalus (L.), around British coasts, it seems worth while recording the recent occurrence of a specimen at Tenby, Pembrokeshire.