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Typically, these fish are deep-sea dwellers and thrive in waters that are the least explored by scientists. Oceangoers with a dead, 12-foot-long oarfish. / Credit: Michael Wang and Owyn Snodgrass
Oarfish are large, greatly elongated, pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the small family Regalecidae. [1] Found in areas spanning from temperate ocean zones to tropical ones, yet rarely seen, the oarfish family contains three species in two genera. [2] One of these, the giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne), is the longest bony fish alive ...
According to the professor, the belief comes from the fact that the oarfish’s natural habitat is the deep sea, where they dwell between 200 meters (700 feet) and 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) below ...
What makes the sight of the oarfish particularly interesting is that they typically live in the deep sea, dwelling anywhere between 700 and 3,280 feet below the surface, USA TODAY reported. They ...
Giant 'Sea Serpent' Caught on Camera, Discovery News at YouTube. Footage of an oarfish swimming in the mesopelagic layer. "Mythical sea creature captured on film", article about efforts to ban deep-sea bottom trawling with video of R. glesne; Recent Examinations of the Oarfish, Regalecus glesne, from the North Sea.
Regalecus russelii lives in deep waters near areas such as Japan, California, and Baja California, in waters such as the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans. [2] The oarfish typically reside in the mesopelagic area of the sea. [7] Since 1901, there have been 19 verified sightings and strandings along the coast of California waters. [8]
Michael Wang. The group of kayakers and snorkelers poses with the oarfish in California. A group of kayakers and snorkelers found an extremely rare deep-sea fish nicknamed a "doomsday fish" off ...
The Japanese name for the deep-sea dwelling giant oarfish is ryūgū-no-tsukai (リュウグウノツカイ), literally lit. "messenger/servant of Ryūgū" or "Messenger from the Sea God's Palace". [47] This real species of fish may have been the origins of the mythical jinjahime , which also claimed to be a "messenger/servant of Ryūgū".