The rules of the contest was 100 words to describe the Stargazer. Mine was 99 words.... with a smirk on the face.
"Hector,
please hear me out. Your mum does resembled the Stargazer." I sighed while
I find the words to matched my mother in law. "First, its those eyes;
perched on top of the rimless spectacles. Then sailed down the straits to her
upward faced jaws lengthen by the wide chin. I am sure there's a concerto of
demons in chorus from inside."
He stared at me.
"Don't we all
loved our mother in laws?" I swam away with my dorsal fin swaying. I knew
that would sent the shivers down his pectoral fins. Males; they are so easily
swayed.
From the pages of Wikipedia, the real Stargazer reads as below:
The stargazers are a family Uranoscopidae of perciform fish that have eyes on top of their heads (hence the name). The family includes about 51 species (one extinct) in 8 genera, all marine and found worldwide in shallow waters.
In addition to the top-mounted eyes, stargazers also have a large
upward-facing mouth in a large head. Their usual habit is to bury themselves in
sand, and leap upwards to ambush prey (benthic fish
and invertebrates) that pass overhead. Some
species have a worm-shaped lure growing out of the floor of the mouth, which
they can wiggle to attract prey's attention. Both the dorsal
and anal fins are relatively long; some lack
dorsal spines. Lengths range from 18 cm up to 90 cm, for the giant stargazer Kathetostoma giganteum.
Stargazers are venomous; they have
two large poison spines situated behind the opercle and above the pectoral
fins. The species within the genera Astroscopus
and Uranoscopus
can also cause electric shocks. The species
within Astroscopus
have an electric organ consisting of
modified eye muscles, while the species within Uranoscopus have theirs derived
from sonic muscles.[1] They are one of the few (the
other being the striped catfish[2]) marine bony fishes that are electrogenic. The two genera within
stargazers are out of eight total independent evolutions of bioelectrogenesis.[3]
They are also unique among electric fish in
not possessing specialized electroreceptors.[4]
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