The Pineapple fish, also called Pinecone fish is a rather peculiar looking fish. When you encounter this fish under water you will see the resemblance with the pineapple where the fish got his name from. The fish have reel strong scales with needles, which give the animal a protecting armor. There are only two kinds of these Pineapple fish. The Australian Pineapple fish (cleidopus gloriamaris) is only seen at the west coast of Australia. The Japanese pineapple fish has a more wide living area. The animals prefer living under overhangs on the reef. They are seem from 10 meters till 180 meter.
In his lower jaw he has a small rectangular light organ powered by luminous bacteria. At night a bleu-green light is coming from this light organ to attract shrimps.
