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Many babies schooling around presumed parent in shaded, shallow (1/2 to 1 ft deep) backwater swamp. Based on a quick dot-count, I estimate that there were as many as 2000-3000 baby bowfins in the school.

Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania. I was working in early morning light from a boat on Lake Nzelekela when a crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) seized a Tilapia. 600 mm lens mounted on a Wimberley head and tripod. Natural Light.

Commonly known as barbate leatherjacket and bearded filefish, this reef dweller is found in sandy or weedy areas of coastal reefs. Usually found lining up with ropes, wire coral and large string-like sponges -- ostensibly to camouflage itself.

This individual was spotted during a night dive. It was asleep, hovering vertically atop the substrate.

Found in an underwater cavern, photographed, and then released back to where it came from. Five golden colored eggs are visible in some of the photos.

This blind species is endemic to the underwater caves and caverns of the Floridan Aquifer in north-central Florida. It typically hangs upside down from the ceilings of these underwater passages.

This is not a captive occurrence. Posted to iNaturalist with permission of collector, Danny Ramirez, who gave me all information reported here. His location as reported is "Guadalupe River 30 yards downstream of dam in Gonzales". Collected on hook and line with crappie as bait. Intent is for specimen to eventually be deposited at the University of Texas', Biodiversity Collections.

Detailed info in English: http://life-on-earth.ru/amu-darya-and-syr-darya-shovelnose-sturgeons/amu-darya-shovelnose-sturgeons-conservation-uzbekistan
Detailed info in Russian: http://life-on-earth.ru/amudarinskie-lopatonosy/amudarinskie-lopatonosy-proekt-sokhraneniya-uzbekistan
The photos:
Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni caught in Amu Darya River (near Khanka, Khorezm, Uzbekistan) in 2015. The photo was taken in Khorezm Mamun Academy in Khiva (a branch of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan) where the fish was kept in captivity for several years for conservation purposes.

Detailed info: http://life-on-earth.ru/sokhranenie-bioraznoobraziya/amudarinskie-lopatonosy-kyzylkum

Juweniles of various ages of Вig broadnose form of Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni caught in Aprile 2005 as bycatch in the middle stream of Amu Darya River flowing between Kyzylkum and Karakum Deserts (Kyzylravat, Uzbekistan).