Erratum for The Age of Fishes Part 1.

As several readers have pointed out, this fish:

is actually Climatius klimti, not Climatius reticulatus as I claimed in the previous post.

Here is the true, open water-dwelling, plankton-eating C. reticulatus:

C. klimti, on the other hand, is actually a bottom-dwelling species. It inhabits algae praires where its dappled pattern provides perfect camouflage as it hunts the tiny gastropods, caprellids, amphipods and hyoliths that make up the majority of its diet.