On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:57:13 +1000, David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Bugger!  :-)))

>(snip)
>
>> >With his knack for spotting critters, Julian discovered two large
>flathead
>
>> Crocodilefish?   :-)  For does it have to be a PAINTED flathead?
>
>Now this is a strange one!  :-)

That's because I misconstrued your conversation with Lee to mean that
a "painted flathead" either looks like a crocfish or is the synonym of
a crocfish:

LB> >Be forceful . . . it was
LB> > definitely a crocodilefish . . . what's one look like?
>
DS> Like a painted flathead!

Glad my remark gave you a chance to revise my mistaken image from what
Ichtyologist Strike said on the previous occasion.  :-)))

>In one book, 'Sea Fishes of Southern Australia', the closest looking
>specimen - to what I've been calling a, 'Painted Flathead' - is called a,
>'Tassel-Snouted Flathead'.  Wheras the picture and description in, 'Coastal
>Fishes of South-Eastern Australia' refer to it as a 'Rock Flathead'.  (A
>name and image that, in the first book, looks nothing like the picture and
>certainly doesn't match the description, of the critter in the second book -
>and neither of which have the more elongated snout of the thing that we
>see!!)  :-))))

Bugger!  :-)))

-- Bob.