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A little id quiz
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 03:24 AM
Can anyone identify these? I do know what they are, but I must admit to being a little surprised at how they look. A little hint, the fish they came from was caught at the mouth of a small tributary of the Minnesota river. The fish is not native to this river however.
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 06:16 AM
Looks like the pectoral spines out of some kind of catfish.
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 01:28 PM
Sounds right to me.Looks like the pectoral spines out of some kind of catfish.
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 04:19 PM
Philadelphia Cream Cheese 
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 04:46 PM
I saw catfish spine as well. three in a row.Sounds right to me.
last time i saw a spin like that was after a red tide in Texas ,1000's of sea cats DEAD.
what fish is it?
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 05:20 PM
I saw catfish spine as well. three in a row.
last time i saw a spin like that was after a red tide in Texas ,1000's of sea cats DEAD.
what fish is it?
Yeah, I've had hardhead catfish spines in my tires a couple of times. Usually the dorsal spine, though, I think. But that would not be this fish, though, of course. I can't imagine what ictalurid would be that size and present but not native to the Minnesota River. I'm assuming that it is sitting on a butter dish, so maybe I have the size wrong. Definately pectoral spines, because two of them and the bilaterally symmetrical -ness of them.
Common carp dorsal fins have an ossified ray that looks a lot like that, but I don't recall the pectoral fins having such a robust leading ray. Still, that has to be my WAG, because I cannot think of anything else it could be that would not be native. (I don't think white catfish introduced up there?)
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 08:08 PM
Sounds right to me.Philadelphia Cream Cheese
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 10:02 PM
Sounds right to me.
Nope, that has a white top. Blue Bonnet?
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Posted 22 April 2009 - 04:51 PM
Common carp dorsal fins have an ossified ray that looks a lot like that, but I don't recall the pectoral fins having such a robust leading ray. Still, that has to be my WAG, because I cannot think of anything else it could be that would not be native. (I don't think white catfish introduced up there?)
Very close,
It's actually the anal fin ray of a common carp. I was surprised by it because I thought it would be a single bone. The teeth on it kind of intrigued me so I thought I'd boil away the flesh and have a look at it. Once I did that I found that it was a pair of bones. I planned to do the dorsal ray as well but it is still attached to a chunk of meat in the freezer.
Oh, and it was Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
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