Catherine Rusoff
An “unusual” and “strange-looking” fish washed up on the Oregon coast earlier this month, shocking people with its gigantic size. At first, experts thought it was just a “common sunfish,” known by its scientific name Spring spring, but now they have learned that it is something else – and rare.
O Aquarium by the sea said in a Facebook post last week that after photos of the massive 7.3-foot fish caused “a huge stir on social media,” New Zealand researcher Mariann Nyegaard believed it was a species unfamiliar to Oregon, but which she has extensive experience with. The fish turned out to be a trickster sunfish, which she “discovered and described” in research published in 2017.
The bad guys were discovered “hiding in plain sight” in museum collections after 125 years of misidentifying specimens, according to the Australian Museum. Describing sunfish as “beautiful giants,” the museum claims the world’s largest bony fish can weigh more than 4,400 pounds.
“Only a mother could love that face,” one person commented on the aquarium ad, with another person describing the fish as “huge and kind of scary and interesting all at the same time.”
Originally, the Hoodwinker sunfish was believed to only live in temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere, the aquarium said. But that changed quickly.
“This theory would be challenged as some have. recently landed in California and one in far northern Alaska,” the Seaside Aquarium said. This fish, hiding in plain sight, has probably been seen/washed ashore in the Pacific Northwest before, but has been confused with the more common, Mola mola.
Courtesy of Thomas Turner
A trickster sunfish was found at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Coal Oil Point Preserve in 2019, with one expert calling it a “the most remarkable organism I have ever seen wash on the beach.”
The aquarium said it would keep the fish at Gearhart Beach and that, at the time of posting, its body “would likely remain for several more days, perhaps weeks, as its tough skin makes it difficult for scavengers to pierce.”
“It is a remarkable fish and the aquarium encourages people to see it for themselves,” they added.
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