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Idiacanthus antrostomus, also known as the Pacific blackdragon or black sea dragon, [3] is a species of barbeled dragonfishes noted for having ultrablack skin, similar to pigments like Vantablack. The fish has tightly packed melanosomes allowing its skin to absorb 99.95% of light of wavelengths common in its habitat.
In addition, deep-sea dragon fishes evolved retinas with far-red emitting photophores and rhodopsins. [13] These far-red emitting properties produce long-wave bioluminescence greater than 650 nm. This unique evolutionary trait was first seen around 15.4 Ma and had a single evolutionary origin within the stomiidae family. [13]
A database of seadragon sightings, known as 'Dragon Search' has been established with support from the Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc., ('Dragon Search' arose as the logical progression of a similar project initiated by the MLSSA, which was the first community group or indeed organisation of any type to adopt the common seadragon's ...
Stomiiformes / ˈ s t ɒ m i. ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology.It includes, for example, dragonfishes, lightfishes (Gonostomatidae and Phosichthyidae), loosejaws, marine hatchetfishes and viperfishes.
It's official: New Richmond teen breaks Ohio record for largest blue catfish ever caught. Ohio fish records in Hook & Line Division. Bass, hybrid striped: 18.82 pounds. 30 7/8 inches. Muskingum River.
Corydoras Pygmaeus or Pygmy Catfish is a type of freshwater fish, and as long as you welcome at least 10 of these little beauties into one of the best tropical fish tanks with plants and soft or ...
The Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons (Phycodurus and Phyllopteryx). The name is derived from Ancient Greek: σύν (syn), meaning "together", and γνάθος (gnathos), meaning "jaw". [1] The fused jaw is one of the traits that the entire family have in common. [2]
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