This was collected from sea water. I am based at Surat - Gujarat in India. Also, identification keys needed for identifying fish, particularly photographs.
It looks like a Tetraodontidae fish. To be sure, you can find some keys for identification in the link below.
http://www.fishbase.org/identification/classlist.php
The picture is not the best one for an ID... but it looks like Chelonodon patoca. Is it possible?
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Chelonodon-patoca.html
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If You have the respective specimen, take some more pictures of it, from different angles (from above, from below it etc.).
p.s. when You take a photo on the lateral part of the fish, keep the camera somewhere above the middle part of the body, otherwise the resulted picture could be misleading (for example, if the head is closer to the objective of the camera, it will appear much bigger than it is in reality - if compared with other parts of the body)
Well. You can try fishes of India by Sir. Francis Day or Munro book on Marine Fishes of ceyone and adjacent waters. Yes, as indicated it resembles like chelonodon belongs to Tetrodontidae family..
its Chelonodon patoca .......
Environment / Climate / Range Ecology
Marine; freshwater; brackish; reef-associated; anadromous ; depth range 4 - ? m Tropical; 23°C - 28°C
Mr. Torok, thank you for your tips on how to take photos, actually very young budding first year students took the pictures. Being teacher, i wanted to satisfy their curiosity. They took pictures with mobile. thankyou again sir.
Mr.Sai, i already have these keys....but anyways thank you for the efforts.
"thank you for your tips on how to take photos, actually very young budding first year students took the pictures. Being teacher, i wanted to satisfy their curiosity. They took pictures with mobile."
No problem!
I also got pictures taken with mobile phones by visitors of various areas where they find something that not seemed to be common...
p.s. actually, in case of very rare species, we take into account a recent record only if there was a picture of the specimen (no matter if taken with photo-camera or mobile phone - the basic issue was a technical one: if the image had enough pixels to identify (without doubt) the species...
you can send me fish photos via e mail and I can identify all and send you the references . [email protected]
Plz try the Francis & Day's Volumes to identify the marine fishes of the Country. I use it and it is the best one.
From the photo it looks like Puffer fish ( Lagocephalus spadiceus). But not sure please go to the fishbase web site I will paste the link below.
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Lagocephalus-spadiceus.html
If the characters does not match please go to family key and confirm it.
Website will help you.
http://www.fishbase.org/identification/specieslist.php?famcode=448&areacode=&spines=&fins=
Please follow this Key to species of the family Tetrodontidae (Puffers)
http://www.fishbase.org/keys/questions.php
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