Fish that looks like a penis

Urechis has four species of penis fish. The new species is known from nine specimens, six males and three females, collected from shallow waters around banks of slow-flowing turbid canals and rivers in Soc Trang and Tra Vinh Provinces, Vietnam. Stephanie Walen, 32, spotted a type of rockfish - which at a certain angle looks like external human male genitalia - at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon. We returned them to their subterranean homes — excepting those that were snatched by eager herring gulls. May 06, Is 'Abba Jaan' a vote luring plan?

However, the eggs need to be continuously suspended in the water by a current. As a male courts a female, he shows the male cuttlefish pattern on the side of his body facing the female and the female cuttlefish pattern on the side facing away from her. A ring of glands at the front of the proboscis secrete mucus which sticks to the burrow wall.