Bur fish

Hello, Just registered here as it seem to have many "animal experts" on this forum :) A friend of mine took this "fish" near Koh Lanta island in Thailand. Could anyone tell me/us what animal it is ? http://www.franco-thai.com/forumphp/files/dscf11212_140.jpg ...

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... material, this along with natural selection brings about a variation from the original 'stable' genome. Example with the carp - an 'original' fish is competing with this introduced carp population for food, the original fish are being out competed and so are dying out, one of these original ...

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... # 950,000 insects, # 81,000 mollusks, # 40,000 crustaceans, # 2,175 corals, # 130,200 others; + 59,811 vertebrates (Phylum Chordata): # 29,300 fish, # 6,199 amphibians, # 8,240 reptiles, # 9,956 birds, # 5,416 mammals. (Birds are not species btw, try Class (Aves)) sorry birds are species read ...

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... # 950,000 insects, # 81,000 mollusks, # 40,000 crustaceans, # 2,175 corals, # 130,200 others; + 59,811 vertebrates (Phylum Chordata): # 29,300 fish, # 6,199 amphibians, # 8,240 reptiles, # 9,956 birds, # 5,416 mammals.

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... in the tropical rain forests the ranks of Arthropoda would swell to over 10 million species! Most people do not normally think of a clam, a jellyfish, or an earthworm as an animal. Usually, a species is called by its genus name (capitalized) followed by its species name (lower case), so a human ...

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