FSH-31-HS002-002
Atlantic spadefish, Chaetodipterus faber, caught in an abandoned fishing net on a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, USA. The truncated members of the family Ephippidae are identified by their gray banding as adult fish. As a juvenile, it looks like a spade on a deck of cards. Spade fish can be seen hiding in the flotsam doing their best to look like any other piece of organic debris. These adult fish, but more especially the juveniles, are voracious feeders of the substantial jelly fish and comb jelly population.
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