# Hydrolagus melanophasma **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 22, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915 "2009-09-22T21:33:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Penfold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/penfold/32/5007_2.png) [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/1 "2009-09-22T21:33:50Z")
[http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/ghostshark/](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/ghostshark/) ![http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/09/eastern-pacific-balck-ghostshark-specimen21.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/e/e/ee1e6ac8575a8bd0daabe166a1eaf43b7ff45902.jpeg) > Perhaps the most intriguing feature of the newly described species, Hydrolagus melanophasma, is a presumed sexual organ that extends from its forehead called a tentaculum. > > “They have this club on the top of their head with spikes. People think it’s used for mating,” Long said. “It’s like a little mace with little spikes and hooks and it fits into their forehead. It’s jointed and it comes out. We’re not sure if it is used to stimulate the female or hold the female closer.” I will let someone else think up a clever comment. ---
**Author:** ![ImportMuscle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/importmuscle/32/7615_2.png) [@ImportMuscle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ImportMuscle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/2 "2009-09-22T23:57:18Z")
Are we going too call this the “Rape Fish”? ---
**Author:** ![08GT500](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/08gt500/32/5417_2.png) [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/3 "2009-09-23T08:25:19Z")
> [@ImportMuscle](#): > > Are we going too call this the “Rape Fish”? Has my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/4 "2009-09-23T08:34:20Z")
Cock face. ---
**Author:** ![08GT500](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/08gt500/32/5417_2.png) [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/5 "2009-09-23T08:43:03Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > little mace with little spikes and hooks cock face. Fix’t ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/6 "2009-09-23T08:45:39Z")
No pics of fish’s penis face? ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/7 "2009-09-23T08:59:10Z")
More importantly…can you beer batter/fry this thing? ---
**Author:** ![L8APEX1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/l8apex1/32/7276_2.png) [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/8 "2009-09-23T09:12:49Z")
what a dick head… :rimshot: ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/9 "2009-09-23T11:48:45Z")
kinda looks like jerky ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/10 "2009-09-23T11:55:03Z")
bet it can give one hell of a mushroom stamp ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hydrolagus-melanophasma/73915/11 "2009-09-23T12:46:06Z")
I like this.