Dragaera

House Animals

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Sat Dec 7 14:09:41 PST 2002

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Davis, Iain E. wrote:

>Actually, I meant Coelacanth. :).  It reminded me of it because of the
>teeth, I think.  Not it's shape/size.

>However...these images of an actual coelacanth don't match the ones I
>had previously (which were drawn, rather than photographed) seen...not
>too surprising, really.  Which means the image I had in my head of a
>"coelacanth" was wrong. There's a reason biology isn't my major! ;>
>

Well, that's what Google is for.  :-)

If you were thinking of the teeth, well, maybe you mean one of the
various deep-sea fish that has that sort of mouthful of needles.
There's plenty of those, including the viperfish, dragonfish,
anglerfish, snaggletooth & fangtooth.

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/~pine/angler.htm

http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~mcdougal/neurobehavior/syllabus/angler.jpg

http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalogue/deepsea/

http://www.imagequest3d.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio3/imageFolio.cgi?img=0&search=Deep+Sea+Fish&cat=all&bool=and