Classification: Scorpionfish, Sea Robins, & Kin


Blobfish (Sealife by CollectA)

2 (21 votes)

Review and images by Suspsy; edited by bmathison1972

The blobfish (Psychrolutes microporos) is a most bizarre sea creature that features loose skin with no scales, gelatinous flesh, a frail skeleton, and no swim bladder. All these adaptations enable it to survive extremely high pressures in very deep waters around Australia and New Zealand.

Laugh and Grow Fat Sea Animals Series 1 (Animal Heavenly Body)

4.1 (10 votes)

Review and images by JimoAi; edited by bmathison1972

Happy Shark Week! For a change, instead of reviewing a shark for this year, I will be reviewing a selected group of sea animals with a shark included, of course.

An introduction to Animal Heavenly Body. They are a Chinese company, akin to a mix of PNSO and Haolonggood with a hint of Popmart, which focuses on modern animals with some stylized features with them.

Roughskin Sculpin (Freshwater Fishes Book 2, first AND second release by Yujin)

4.2 (6 votes)

This figure is the Roughskin Sculpin (for reasons that are unclear, the Japanese name Yamanokami apparently translates to “God of the Mountain!”), Trachidermus fasciatus, sculpt number 27 and number 12 from the second series. This is the first and only sculpin (Cottidae) in the Yujin series.

Three-spined Stickleback (Freshwater Fish Pictorial Book 1, revised release, by Yujin)

5 (3 votes)

This figure is the Three-spined Stickleback (or Tiddler, or Tiddlebat, in Great Britain, because that’s kind of hilarious), Gasterosteus aculeatus, number 12 from the first series. This is the only representative of the stickleback order in the set; phylogenetically, they are grouped with more familiar spiny fish like scorpionfish, sea-robins and wolffish (at one time they were grouped with seahorses, pipefish and kin in Sygnathiformes, but that is no longer considered correct).

3D Dangerous Sea Creatures Pictorial Book (The Access)

4.2 (10 votes)

For my next October review I will be giving a brief overview of the entire 3D Dangerous Sea Creatures Pictorial Book collection by The Access (also known as Access Toys), which was released just a couple months ago this past August 2023. I was originally going to just review the jellyfish, but was convinced to review the whole set by forum member JimoAi.

Saltwater Fish in Colour Part 1, Part 2 (Yujin)

4 (3 votes)

Review and images by JimoAi; edited by bmathison1972

Continuing on the review of Yujin’s Saltwater Fish Part 1, here’s a look at the second half of the set.

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish (Forcipiger flavissimus)

Size of figure: 4.8 cm

Size: 22 cm

Scale: 1:4

Color: yellow body with half black on top and white on the lower half of the head, transparent pectoral and caudal fin, pale blue on the end of dorsal and anal fin, and black eye spot on the either side of the anal fin

Diet: hard and soft coral polyps and small crustaceans

Species frequency in being made into toy form: rare

Base: sand with rock

Notes: a butterflyfish with a typical butterflyfish shape; not the most exciting butterflyfish for Yujin to go with but the reason why they went with this species might be because of the butterfly fish character in Finding Nemo is a yellow longnose butterflyfish.

Atlantic Wolffish (Wild Water Series by Yowie Group)

4.5 (4 votes)

Review and images by Lanthanotus; edited by bmathison1972

Today I want you to introduce to a really nasty looking fish, the Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus) or seawolf. Few people know this fish, although a lot have probably eaten it as part of those fish dishes that do not specify a certain species of fish, as the famous “fish and chips” on the British Islands for example.

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