April 27, 2021: Armored Searobin

The armored searobin, Scalicus engyceros, was one of the fishes that famous ichthyologist David Starr Jordan, the original president of Stanford University, reported among the specimens floating offshore of a 1919 lava flow from Mauna Loa.

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana. Download larger version (jpg, 460 KB).

The armored searobin, Scalicus engyceros, was one of the fishes that famous ichthyologist David Starr Jordan, the original president of Stanford University, reported among the specimens floating offshore of a 1919 lava flow from Mauna Loa. This individual was seen during a dive on August 29, 2015, off Keahole Point, several miles north of the 1919 lava flow on the Kona Coast of Hawaii Island.

From: Volcano Fish.