Acoustic communication—an overlooked driver in #boxfish evolution https://phys.org/news/2026-02-acoustic-communication-overlooked-driver-boxfish.html paper: https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/146/2/blaf079/8268841

"All species are capable of producing sounds, but acoustic data are lacking, particularly for Atlantic species whose sound mechanism was unknown until now... researchers demonstrated a novel sound apparatus, called the sphaera sonica. It consists of two globular masses of tissue surrounded by fast sonic muscles... like spheres used in swimming pools to generate waves"

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Bony fishes 1 (Marine Animals by Panini), Part 4

Fourth post of the Panini miniature sea life. This time around we will be looking at an assortment of bony fishes, ones that can probably be assigned to a species, or get pretty close. That said, some are still guesses, and as we’ve seen in the last four posts, they are all going to be pretty stylized, but sometimes shape and colour gives some pretty good clues. Many represent species that […]

Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/bony-fishes-1-marine-animals-by-panini-part-4/

#amphiprion #amphiprionOcellaris #boxfish #cephalopholis #cephalopholisMiniata #chelmon #chelmonRostratus #copperbandButterflyfish #coralGrouper #hippocampus #hippocampusReidi #labrusMixtus #longsnoutSeahorse #ocellarisClownfish #ostracion #ostracionCubicus #yellowBoxfish