What is my Blob Fish?

racoll · Post by **racoll** » 12 Jan 2005, 10:30

Got this pic off the http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/ website from a deep sea expedition to the tasman sea last year. all they say is that it's a blob fish. i'm intrigued. i've never seen a fish with eyes set up in such a binocular fashion. it almost looks mammalian.

if someone could give me a latin name, that would be great!

thanks.

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 12 Jan 2005, 12:09

Psychrolutes. The little toad-headed beast to the lower left is an Ogcocephalid Batfish. The orange creature looks like a Liparid Snailfish.

racoll · Post by **racoll** » 12 Jan 2005, 18:37

thanks. just did a quick google search for it and found this hilarious photo.

what a sorry looking creature!

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 12 Jan 2005, 18:53

Was this known before Jabba the Hut was created?

This must be the uglyest animal ive ever seen!

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 12 Jan 2005, 20:08

Would have made a great catfish though!!

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 13 Jan 2005, 20:21

It probably looks a LOT different when alive....

these things are hauled up straight from the abyss; think about decrompression and what it does to the shape of a small fish when hauled up several miles!

I mean; WE die like flies if we make a straight ascent too fast from a 30 meter SCUBA-dive.....these fish were down a couple of 1000 meters; the effects are probably hundreds of times worse; their shape is all screwed up

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 13 Jan 2005, 20:24

found this on a jap site via google.

and this

at a depth between 1013m and 1340m, on the Norfolk Ridge, north-west of New Zealand, June 2003

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 13 Jan 2005, 20:27

Reminds me of a Allenbatrachus grunniens, but made of rubber!

Post by **medaka** » 14 Jan 2005, 14:18

reminds me of an old boss.i had..hehe

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 14 Jan 2005, 17:47

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... p?news=546

Jools