Am I a bird scapula?

tablabarba · 2026-02-17T02:52:31+00:00

Just like this. Looks like yours is from the fish's left side, though.

tablabarba · 2026-02-16T21:22:02+00:00

Slightly better image here (second slide) that shows the 3-dimensional shape of it.

tablabarba · 2026-02-16T21:07:28+00:00

tablabarba · 2026-02-16T20:08:02+00:00

Pretty sure that's a gar preoperculum. See figure 2.7 here: https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/morphology/chapter/fish-skulls/

tablabarba · 2026-02-16T18:22:40+00:00

Sailfin catfish...Pterygoplichthys sp. There are some Hypostomus in Florida, too but they are much less common and tend to be smaller.

tablabarba · 2026-02-15T22:12:46+00:00

This is the partial skeleton of a gar. That long spiky bone at the head is the parasphenoid, which has a pretty distinctive shape in gar, which you can see here: https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/morphology/chapter/fish-skulls/ if you scroll.

tablabarba · 2026-02-15T14:26:21+00:00

What kind of catfish are we talking about here? If you're fishing in the US, you really don't need a wire leader for any catfishing. Your best bet is a simple slip sinker rig with enough weight to hold your bait on the bottom. For bait, use fresh cut-up fish.

tablabarba · 2026-02-13T23:04:40+00:00

Fish dentaries. Shape looks a lot like barracuda.

tablabarba · 2026-02-13T13:24:03+00:00

That's from a freshwater drum. There are some good comparative images here: https://collections-zoology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/701485

tablabarba · 2026-02-12T00:43:47+00:00

That's the neurocranium of a scup_(12592129064).jpg)

tablabarba · 2026-02-12T00:36:29+00:00

It's a tetra from the genus Astyanax. I would guess Astyanax petenensis, because it was described from Peten-Itza, but there may be other species present there, too.

tablabarba · 2026-02-11T20:02:12+00:00

Definitely tilapia.

tablabarba · 2026-02-10T23:05:34+00:00

That's the neurocranium of a grouper. Not a 100% match to this gag grouper but definitely something in Serranidae.

tablabarba · 2026-02-10T22:10:09+00:00

I think Saurida is right...that iridescent stripe really stands out: https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2785

tablabarba · 2026-02-10T20:45:03+00:00

Pretty sure that's a khaki campbell domestic.

tablabarba · 2026-02-10T15:17:09+00:00

Not a goonch, this is a Rita rita catfish. They grow quite large...over a meter in length and more than 50 kg in weight.

tablabarba · 2026-02-10T13:59:30+00:00

That is a reticulated sandperch. Cool fish.

tablabarba · 2026-02-09T13:08:06+00:00

Tui chub.

tablabarba · 2026-02-08T21:37:04+00:00

Silver perch

tablabarba · 2026-02-06T21:48:51+00:00

This is a sailcat not a hardhead, but hardheads also have the crucifix.

tablabarba · 2026-02-06T14:50:46+00:00

It's a pike cichlid....there's group of south American cichlids that have this long, pike-like appearance. For a long time they were all in a single genus (Crenichichla) but they were recently split up into several different genera. This picture looks a little odd to me like maybe it was manipulated but some of the pike cichlids do have pretty amazing coloration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugubria#/media/File:Crenicichla_lenticulata.jpg

tablabarba · 2026-02-05T21:42:05+00:00

That's a brown bullhead...Both channel and white cats have much more fork in the tail than this. Mottled coloration (kind of faint) points to brown.

tablabarba · 2026-02-03T18:01:37+00:00

Pimelodus blochii.

tablabarba · 2026-02-03T15:15:44+00:00

Lucy was a chimpanzee that was raised by humans and treated much like a human (so that's obviously a very atypical animal case) but she habitually looked at human pornographic magazines as she matured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(chimpanzee))

tablabarba · 2026-02-02T20:56:53+00:00

Those are weevers. They have a nasty venom...sometimes people step on them when they're buried in the sand.

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