Weird fish

So are people actually believing this still?

I never believe any info that comes form only one source. If you believe everything that you read on the Internet, without investigating it further yourself, then you my friend are a rube.

Not to mention that if this were to be true, a zoological find like this would be huge and written up in many magazines and books, not to mention televised reports and zoological periodicals.

Oh yeah, JamisonBWolsh, if you personally discovered this "alleged" fish, then you deserve the right to be cocky and outspoken, but by so stringently holding on to a belief that comes from one website, you are just showing yourself to be close-minded and misinformed.

There are alot of very knowledgeable people that frequent this forum, please show them the respect that you seem to demand.
 
this thread was before my time here...but i had fun reading it. i've read a few things about this catfish...yea, it's real, that dude is right after all, despite his cockiness and lack of sources! i remember reading about it even on the AP wire. i wonder if slip and the other skeptics knows that at this point, hehehe. nonetheless, i would have been skeptic at that time, too!

it's not THAT weird though...not enough to show up on the cover of magazines, etc. lots of critters (salamanders, crayfish) can live outside of water indefinitely as long as their gills remain moist. i haven't done a search, but i bet there's more than one link about it by this time...still, i've found info on planetcatfish that's not anywhere else on the net (outside of scientific journals), and i consider it reputable.

hans, i love catfish! go catfish!
 
Spoke to a friend who is a professor of ichthyology. He has never heard of this fish. He believes that the facts have been "misrepresented" and that although it may spend a portion of it's life out of water, that it most likely spends a good portion of it's lifecycle in the water.

Sorry, I'm gonna have to go with the Doc on this one.
 
ok, but it sounds like you're basically changing your story now that you've been forced to reconcile the species' existence...before you were saying that the whole thing was preposterous, now you're saying you don't believe it lives outside of water most of its life!

i'm sure your friend is very knowledgable, but just because i'll be a professor of history in a couple years, it doesn't mean i'll know every little facet of that field...
 
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That pic of the "land fish" is definatly underwater, the head is head up too high and with to little effort without having the help of being underwater. That neck doesn't have enough muscle to hold that massive head up without water.
 
Why have so many old threads surfaced lately? This is not a new fish, nor is it terrestrial. It lives in leaf litter that is primarily submerged--it doesn't inhabit large bodies of moving or standing water, but rather the marginal habitat that borders bodies of water and forest floors. Ripley's will exaggerate the extreme aspects of just about anything, but seldom out right lies.

http://www.amazonian-fish.co.uk/indexpime.html Scroll down--several images and a description. The names posted previously are wrong, and certain facts excluded. It's listed in Fishbase, though very little info in included.

I'll let this go as long as it stays friendly.
 
thanks, og....a few people have been finding old threads and revitalizing them. for the most part, i find it in good fun. with this thread, i recalled reading an AP article on this weird fish a year or two ago, so it piqued my interest.
 
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