The name says it all: butterfish have a delicate, buttery flavor. Because of their small size, butterfish are almost exclusively sold whole. Don’t worry, though, these fish are not terribly bony and the meat is easy to pick off.

Stromateidae

Mulloway

The butterfish hovers under the bell of the jellyfish but may swim in and out of the tentacles to snatch food. The butterfish also sometimes feeds on the tentacles and sex organs of the jellyfish. Sometimes the jellyfish eats the butterfish.

Lobsters. Contrary to popular belief, lobsters are not immortal. Lobsters grow by moulting which requires a lot of energy, and the larger the shell the more energy is required. Eventually, the lobster will die from exhaustion during a moult.

Raw lobsters get their distinctive blue-purplish colour from a pigment called astaxanthin. This allows the pigment molecules to resume their free-form, and so appear orange.

in 30 million lobsters

Advertisement: “A normal colored lobster has three layers of color from the top down: yellow, blue, and red,” she said. “Our eyes can’t handle the layers and so we see brown. This is also why lobsters turn red when you cook them.

Marine biologists at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center said purple lobsters are extremely rare, but possible. Professor Robert Steneck said lobster shell pigments are complicated and have colors including blue, red, yellow and more.

FALMOUTH, Maine (WFLA/CNN) – Lightning strikes twice for a lobsterman in Maine after he caught a one in 100 million lobster for the second time! John Mcinnes found this purple, blue and pink speckled lobster in one of his traps last week. Those colors give this particular variation the nick-name “Cotton candy lobster.”

Lobsters reproduce by laying lobster eggs. The eggs are carried by the female until they’re ready to hatch.

A new species of colorful crayfish was discovered in Ohio and is now possibly the state’s rarest crayfish species, according to the Ohio Division of Wildlife. Ohio researchers have recently discovered the blue crayfish, otherwise known as the blue crawfish.

“Why does cooked shrimp turn pink?” In lobsters, crab, and shrimp, however, a pigment called “astaxanthin” lies hidden, camouflaged by a protein covering. Astaxanthin is a member of the carotene family of pigments, which are responsible for coloring many of the yellow and orange (or “carotene”) fruits and vegetables.

The high pitched sound made by an overheating lobster is caused by expanding air rushing out of small holes in lobsters’ bodies, like a whistle being blown. A dead lobster will “scream” just as loudly as if it was living.

Is That Lobster a Boy or a Girl?

1. The shape of the tail: The male lobster has a very straight tail (it’s the lobster on the left above); the female’s tail is wider and has a slight curve.
2. The first set of “baby” legs: On the male, the first set is covered in a hard shell; on the female, they’re thin and feathery.

Tomalley (from the Carib word tumale, meaning a sauce of lobster liver), crab fat, or lobster paste is the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters, that fulfills the functions of both the liver and the pancreas. Tomalley corresponds to the hepatopancreas in other arthropods.