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The world's smallest fish depends on the measurement used. [1]Based on minimum standard length at maturity the main contenders are Paedocypris progenetica where females can reach it at 7.9 mm (0.31 in), [2] [3] [4] the stout infantfish (Schindleria brevipinguis) where females reach it at 7 mm (0.28 in) and males at 6.5 mm (0.26 in), [1] and Photocorynus spiniceps where males can reach it at 6. ...
S. brevipinguis is among the smallest known fish in the world, together with species such as Paedocypris progenetica.Males of S. brevipinguis have an average standard length of 7.7 mm (0.30 in), a gravid female was 8.4 mm (0.33 in) and the maximum standard length of the species is 10 mm (0.39 in). [3]
He has written a description of the fish along with another species of the same genus called Paedocypris micromegethes. It is one of the smallest known fish in the world, together with species such as Schindleria brevipinguis , with females reaching a maximum standard length of 10.3 mm (0.41 in), males 9.8 mm (0.39 in) and the smallest known ...
Paedocypris is a genus of tiny cyprinid fish found in swamps and streams on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Bintan. [2] Paedocypris progenetica has been claimed to be the one of smallest known species of fish in the world. The smallest mature female measured 7.9 mm (0.31 in) and the largest known individual was 10.3 mm (0.41 ...
The stout infantfish, a type of goby, is the second smallest known fish. [61] Females grow to a length of 8.4 millimetres (0.33 in) and males are mature at 7 millimetres (0.28 in). Sinarapan: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the sinarapan, also a goby, is the world's smallest commercially harvested fish. [62]
Guinness defines seas as "smaller bodies of water than oceans, but still large water bodies, party enclosed by a land mass and connected to an ocean." The Karin Sea has been marked as a sea on ...
The dwarf pygmy goby or Philippine goby [2] (Pandaka pygmaea) is a tropical species of fish in the subfamily Gobionellinae from brackish water and mangrove areas in Southeast Asia. [1] [3] It is one of the smallest fish species in the world.
Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s, British ...