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Aplatophis chauliodus, the fangtooth snake-eel, also known as the tusky eel in Cuba and the United States, [1] is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. [2] It was described by James Erwin Böhlke in 1956. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and French Guiana.
Mysterious deep-sea ‘doomsday fish’ found washed up on California beach. Jabed Ahmed. ... It is the second time an oarfish has been found in the area this year. Oarfish have only been ...
The fish spotted by oceangoers on August 10 was 12 feet long, according to the institution. The fish had already died at the time of the discovery, and was found near the shores of La Jolla Cove.
The giant leptocephalus (Coloconger giganteus) is a species of eel in the family Notacanthidae (spiny eels). [1] It was first described by Peter Henry John Castle in 1959. [ 2 ] [ a ] It is a marine , deep-water dwelling eel which is distributed worldwide.
A rarely seen deep sea fish resembling a serpent was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast and was brought ashore for study, marine experts said. The silvery, 12-foot ...
The Giant Kelpfish is a species of clinid, native to the west coast of North America. It is found most commonly in the warmer waters of Point Conception, California, to southern Baja California. It inhabits rocky areas with dense canopies of microalga, giant kelp and other large seaweeds. It is also known that they may use Eelgrass or Surfgrass ...
The giant oarfish, the largest bony fish in the world, was spotted floating — dead — just off San Diego, only the 20th such fish to wash up along the California coast since the early 1900s ...
Spectrunculus grandis is a species of Rhizopharyngia ray-finned fish in the cusk-eel family known by the common names pudgy cusk-eel and giant cusk-eel. It is one of two species in the formerly monotypic genus Spectrunculus, the other species, S. crassus, having been differentiated in 2008. [3] The pudgy cusk-eel is a common fish of deep oceans ...