Heavy Huss on Light tackle !

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Originally Posted by mtnbykr2

As usual Dizzy,
great report and interesting info, your "huss" looks alot like our Leos, leopard sharks...

Hmmmmm Cats and Dogs.


Huss is a Catshark, we do have catsharks but ours are mostly adapted to extremely deep water.

The coloration is a great example of parallel evolution where two different species have developed similar features because they inhabit the same environmental niches in their distant though similar environments.

In other words if we did not have Leopard sharks we'd probably have another shark, maybe something like a smaller spotted sevengill, that would look a lot like a huss eating surf perch in our surf.

His Garfish on the other hand is his version of a Houndfish, or our Needlefish. Same Biological nitche, same family Belonedai, but a smaller genetically distinct fish from the genus belone not tylosurus.


Cools stuff!