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What is my Blob Fish?
Posted: 12 Jan 2005, 10:30
by racoll
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.
Posted: 12 Jan 2005, 12:09
by coelacanth
Psychrolutes. The little toad-headed beast to the lower left is an Ogcocephalid Batfish. The orange creature looks like a Liparid Snailfish.
Posted: 12 Jan 2005, 18:37
by racoll
thanks. just did a quick google search for it and found this hilarious photo.
what a sorry looking creature!
Posted: 12 Jan 2005, 18:53
by Caol_ila
Was this known before Jabba the Hut was created?
This must be the uglyest animal ive ever seen!
Posted: 12 Jan 2005, 20:08
by Marc van Arc
Would have made a great catfish though!!
Posted: 13 Jan 2005, 20:21
by sidguppy
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
Posted: 13 Jan 2005, 20:24
by Caol_ila
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
Posted: 13 Jan 2005, 20:27
by sidguppy
Reminds me of a Allenbatrachus grunniens, but made of rubber!
Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 14:18
by medaka
reminds me of an old boss.i had..hehe
Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 17:47
by Jools