Blackspot Gurnard

Lepidotrigla umbrosa

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

This gurnard walks the soft mud and sand of the continental shelf on the lower rays of its pectoral fins, which it uses to taste for buried prey. Like other gurnards it can spread those fins into broad fans when alarmed, and it poses no threat to divers.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Teleostei › Perciformes › Triglidae › Lepidotrigla

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 274920.