Fish With Beautiful Blue-Tipped Fins 'Walks' Along Seabed in Port Phillip Bay

5 年前

The gurnard fish, or sea robin, is famous for “walking” across the sea floor, propelling itself using parts of its pectoral fins.

Freediver Jules Casey captured this video of a fish in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. She posted the video to Instagram with the caption “Such a crazy looking fish…it can walk & swim”. Casey replied to comments on her post, where she and others identified the fish as a gurnard.

A Port Phillip Bay taxonomy site classifies the gurnard among marine species in the bay, noting that it’s the “largest scorpionfish” in that location. Credit: onebreathdiver via Storyful