A New, ‘Adorable’ #DeepSea #Fish Swims Into View
The bumpy #snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. The #bumpysnailfish was among three new #snailfish species discovered off the coast of #California, at a depth of over 10,000 feet, from an expedition led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (#MBARI).
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/science/fish-ocean-deep-sea.html
https://archive.ph/XbQXh

Scientists Film Adorable and Never-Before-Seen Snailfish Two Miles Below Ocean https://petapixel.com/2025/09/11/bumpy-snailfish-adorable-new-deep-sea-snailfish-species-filmed-10700-feet-below-ocean/ #underwatercamera #deepseaspecies #snailfish #mbari #News

#NewSpecies of #DeepSea snailfish https://www.mbari.org/news/mbaris-advanced-underwater-technology-reveals-a-new-species-of-deep-sea-snailfish

"#MBARI’s team were exploring the outer reaches of #MontereyCanyon, approximately 100 km offshore of Central #California, with MBARI’s remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts at a depth of 3,268 m when they observed this small snailfish swimming above the abyssal seafloor... The bumpy #snailfish has a distinctive pink color, a round head with large eyes, wide pectoral fins with long uppermost rays, and a bumpy texture."

#NewSpecies!
New snailfish from #alaska just swam in:

Allinectes istiophorus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4515878A-FF94-FFA7-FF42-FC27FDE73863
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5609.3.1
#Zootaxa #AllinectesIstiophorus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #snailfish

#NewSpecies!
New snailfish from #japan just swam in:

Careproctus longibarbatus

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F576A0E9-D89B-4096-AF6F-10D18F58167D
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5492.2.3
#Zootaxa #CareproctusLongibarbatus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #snailfish #deepsea

#NewSpecies!
New snailfish from #japan just swam in:

Careproctus barbatulus

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3DD80080-00E2-4BE3-B2A8-DB813B690CE2
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5492.2.3
#Zootaxa #CareproctusBarbatulus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #snailfish

The Hidden World of Extreme Ocean Depths: Life and Pressures in the Trenches https://deepseanews.com/2023/12/the-hidden-world-of-extreme-ocean-depths-life-and-pressures-in-the-trenches/

"Among #invertebrates, several reach trench depths, including the sea cucumber Myriotrochus bruuni at 10,710 in the #MarianaTrench, the extremely abundant amphipod Hirondellea gigas at 10,897 m in the #ChallengerDeep, the isopod Macrostylis species at 10,710 in the Mariana Trench... The deepest known #vertebrate is the hadal #snailfish Pseudoliparis swirei found at 7966 m."

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168051498/deepest-fish-japan-photograph

Check out the deepest-swimming fish ever caught on camera.

Updated April 5, 2023 7:49 AM ET

By
#JoeHernandez

#Scientists working off the #coastofJapan say they've managed to capture #images of the #deepest #swimming #fish ever #caughtoncamera.

#snailfish #baitedcamera #NPR #IzuOgasawaraTrench #Japan

https://www.npr.org/people/1000952100/joe-hernandez

@friel

how is something living under 27k of ocean THAT cute ?

#snailfish

👇🇯🇵"Scientists film deepest ever fish on seabed off Japan" #DeepestFish #SnailFish
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/asia/deepest-fish-filmed-off-japan-scn-intl-hnk/index.html

Deepest-ever #fish caught and filmed off Japan by scientists
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/deepest-fish-1.6799909

The #snailfish, of the Pseudoliparis belyaevi species, are the first to be caught below 8,000 meters. Remotely operated cameras lowered from the DSSV Pressure Drop also recorded an unknown snailfish species swimming 8,336 metres deep in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench off southern Japan.

#Snailfish fans like me be like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snailfish
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/asia/deepest-fish-filmed-off-japan-scn-intl-hnk