Who knows their dried fish skin?

[cheb]

I found this on the beach today:







I'm guessing at a dogfish or similar.

[weeksy]

Iguana

[Asian Boss]

My first instinct (and I'm no expert) is a primitive teleost rather than a cartilaginous fish.

[cheb]

There were also these:





Shark egg cases, AKA mermaid's purses.

[Asian Boss]

I think the eggs could be a red herring (!).

Looking at the skin again, the scales are pretty rough, maybe it was a shark/ray.

[maccecht]

I found this on the beach today:







I'm guessing at a dogfish or similar.

Beancounters foreskin according to Skubbers

[cheb]

Apparently it's a lumpsucker*: https://www.nafc.uhi.ac.uk/research/dis ... umpsucker/


*Insert your own joak here.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

There were also these:





Shark egg cases, AKA mermaid's purses.

Could be Skate or Dogfish

[cheb]

It's to my shagreen I didn't recognise the skin.

Shagreen/chagrin, get it? No? I won't give up the day job.

Dogfish are sharks, therefore I can claim to have died and wrestled sharks

[maccecht]

There were also these:

That's a baby shadow vessel from Babylon 5 we are all doomed doomed I tell you

https://images.app.goo.gl/VAeH5QXnsZBTBsPq7

[Asian Boss]

I knew it was some form of Actinopterygii.