tags: boxfish, fish, Image of the Day
This young boxfish was one of the specimens collected by a team of Filipino and US scientists during a survey of the Celebes Sea, Philippines, organised by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the National Geographic Society-led Inner Space Speciation Project (ISSP).
Image: WHOI/ISSP [larger view].
GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived 





















Comments
I want that li'l fella for my aquarium. I suppose they're endangered, or something.
Posted by: Dirkh | October 22, 2007 4:04 PM
Puts me in mind of my ex-wife's best friend, who defined her vegetarianism by saying, "I won't eat anything with a face."
Posted by: biosparite | October 22, 2007 5:51 PM
I like the hexagonal patterns! This fish definitely has a "who're you looking at, bub?" vibe.
Posted by: David Harmon | October 23, 2007 9:00 AM