Basketfish

The Basketfish lives in the demersal, marine, depth range 125 - 250 m environment.

Renaming the Easter Basketfish provided by Artemis Poe to cover everything else provided by Lordkalvan and Water Sleeps flag Yet another event sponsored by Water Sleeps, proud owners of the island of Beta since Oct 2004. More

Basketfish has highly developed pectoral and pelvic fins that produce a virtual net in front of its head, a device that is believed to either sieve the water or to enwrap prey. More

Basketfish is not what it's cracked up to be. 5. Don't hand off the pole to your bestfriend, no matter how cool he is, when you are reeling in the big one. Bad idea. 4. More

Common names

Basketfish in English
Mandjievis in Afrikaans
六棱棘箱魨 in Mandarin Chinese
六棱棘箱鲀 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Tetraodontiformes
Family : Aracanidae
Genus : Kentrocapros
Species : Kentrocapros rosapinto
Authority : Smith, 1949