Anybody know this fish?This week, an international team of 60 scientists concluded a marine-biodiversity survey of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Mid-Atlantic Ridge: see Atlantic Ocean. Mid-Atlantic Ridge Submarine ridge lying along the floor of the central Atlantic Ocean. It is a long mountain chain running about 10,000 mi (16,000 km) in a general but curving north-south direction from the and brought home a variety of novelties A novelty is a small manufactured adornment, especially a personal adornment. In this sense, the word is usually used in the plural, novelties. The word is also used to denote novelty item. . This anglerfish anglerfish Any of about 210 species of marine fishes (order Lophiiformes) named for their method of “fishing” for prey. The foremost spine of the dorsal fin is located on the head and is modified into a “fishing rod” tipped with a fleshy was among the finds of the project, which is part of the worldwide Census of Marine Life Census of Marine Life, an international program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of living organisms in the oceans. A 10-year project involving scientists in more than 70 nations, the census began in 2001 and is directed by an . So far, the fish appears to be a new species, says cruise leader Odd Aksel Bergstad of the Institute of Marine Research in Arendal, Norway. Some 4 centimeters long, this fish dangles a lure from its forehead as anglerfish do. Even so, it doesn't match any of the 157 known species of deep-sea anglerfish. Bergstad says that the specimen is female. Male anglerfish often remain tiny, sometimes spending their lives as parasites attached to a female's body. |
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