SLOANE'S VIPERFISH
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Stomiidae
Genus: Chauliodus
Species: Chauliodus sloani
Viperfish is a small, elongated deep-sea fish that has large jaws with long protruding fangs. One of the species is called as Sloane’s viperfish (Chauliodus sloani), one of most popular viperfish species and one of the fiercest predators of the deep.
Sloane’s viperfish is basically a dragonfish of the genus Chauliodus, found in all tropical and subtropical oceans at depths down to 2,500m.
This fish can easily recognized by its large mouth and sharp teeth. As a species, this deep creature fish holds the world record for largest fangs relative to its head. These fangs are so large that they will not fit inside the mouth, which makes them curve back very close to the fish’s eyes.
Sloane’s Viperfish is really malicious. They use these sharp teeth to impale its victims by swimming at them at high speeds. Despite their ferocious appearance, they are relatively small, growing about 30cm in length. Their colors are vary, from dark blue to green, silver or black.
Sloane’s viperfish has a long dorsal spine that is tipped with light producing organ named photophore. Sloane’s viperfish uses this light organ to attract its prey through a process known as bioluminescence, or known as emission of light.
The characteristics of Sloane’s viperfish are very astonishing. Primarily, Sloane’s viperfish feed on small fishes and crustaceans, and they are known to migrate throughout the day. When it is daytime, they are usually found in deep water down to 5,000 feet (1,500 meters). However, at night they travel up to shallower waters at depths less than 600 meters to search for foods. Sloane’s viperfish also known to have a low metabolic rate, which makes them can go days without food.
This specimen, because of the extreme depths they are found, they are rarely seen by the human, yet there are still mysteries unlocked about them. And because they live in such deep, the activities of humans only give them a small impact.
By: Diemas Ekakarina Prihandini
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Stomiidae
Genus: Chauliodus
Species: Chauliodus sloani
Viperfish is a small, elongated deep-sea fish that has large jaws with long protruding fangs. One of the species is called as Sloane’s viperfish (Chauliodus sloani), one of most popular viperfish species and one of the fiercest predators of the deep.
Sloane’s viperfish is basically a dragonfish of the genus Chauliodus, found in all tropical and subtropical oceans at depths down to 2,500m.
This fish can easily recognized by its large mouth and sharp teeth. As a species, this deep creature fish holds the world record for largest fangs relative to its head. These fangs are so large that they will not fit inside the mouth, which makes them curve back very close to the fish’s eyes.
Sloane’s Viperfish is really malicious. They use these sharp teeth to impale its victims by swimming at them at high speeds. Despite their ferocious appearance, they are relatively small, growing about 30cm in length. Their colors are vary, from dark blue to green, silver or black.
Sloane’s viperfish has a long dorsal spine that is tipped with light producing organ named photophore. Sloane’s viperfish uses this light organ to attract its prey through a process known as bioluminescence, or known as emission of light.
The characteristics of Sloane’s viperfish are very astonishing. Primarily, Sloane’s viperfish feed on small fishes and crustaceans, and they are known to migrate throughout the day. When it is daytime, they are usually found in deep water down to 5,000 feet (1,500 meters). However, at night they travel up to shallower waters at depths less than 600 meters to search for foods. Sloane’s viperfish also known to have a low metabolic rate, which makes them can go days without food.
This specimen, because of the extreme depths they are found, they are rarely seen by the human, yet there are still mysteries unlocked about them. And because they live in such deep, the activities of humans only give them a small impact.
By: Diemas Ekakarina Prihandini
LEAFY SEA DRAGON // Phycodurus eques
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Oder: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Subfamily: Syngnathinae
Genus: Phycodurus
Species: P.eques
Leafy sea dragons are some of the most camouflaged creatures on the planet. Glauert’s seadragon get their common names based on the leaf-like appereance on their bodies. Although leafy sea dragon and weedy sea dragon look alike, as they are relatives, leafy sea dragons have more leaf-like looking rather than weedy sea dragons. Leafy and weedy sea dragons are closely related to pipe fish and seahorses. Their size is up to 18 inches long. Their diet is small invertebrates, such as shrimps and other zooplankton. Phycodurus eques can live 5 to 10 years. Can be found in Australia’s southern coastal waters. They live in the boulders (a large rock that has been worn smooth by erosion), kelp and seagrasses. Since leafy sea dragons are one of the most camouflaged creatures, they are excellent in camouflaging to protect themselves from predators. The leaf shape on their body is generally brown to yellow and the body color is olive-tented.
DID YOU KNOW
The male carries the eggs to the underside of the tail. Then the eggs will eventually hatch. When male sea dragons are ready to receive the eggs from the female, the lower half of the tail on the male wrinkled. During mating, the females can lay eggs from 100-250 onto a brood patch, on the underside of the male’s tails. Then they are attached and fertilized. The male incubate the eggs and carry them. Miniature of sea dragons released into water after about four to six weeks.
Male leafy sea dragons tails will turn bright yellow when he is ready to mate.
BY: VICKY KIRKPATRICK
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Oder: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Subfamily: Syngnathinae
Genus: Phycodurus
Species: P.eques
Leafy sea dragons are some of the most camouflaged creatures on the planet. Glauert’s seadragon get their common names based on the leaf-like appereance on their bodies. Although leafy sea dragon and weedy sea dragon look alike, as they are relatives, leafy sea dragons have more leaf-like looking rather than weedy sea dragons. Leafy and weedy sea dragons are closely related to pipe fish and seahorses. Their size is up to 18 inches long. Their diet is small invertebrates, such as shrimps and other zooplankton. Phycodurus eques can live 5 to 10 years. Can be found in Australia’s southern coastal waters. They live in the boulders (a large rock that has been worn smooth by erosion), kelp and seagrasses. Since leafy sea dragons are one of the most camouflaged creatures, they are excellent in camouflaging to protect themselves from predators. The leaf shape on their body is generally brown to yellow and the body color is olive-tented.
DID YOU KNOW
The male carries the eggs to the underside of the tail. Then the eggs will eventually hatch. When male sea dragons are ready to receive the eggs from the female, the lower half of the tail on the male wrinkled. During mating, the females can lay eggs from 100-250 onto a brood patch, on the underside of the male’s tails. Then they are attached and fertilized. The male incubate the eggs and carry them. Miniature of sea dragons released into water after about four to six weeks.
Male leafy sea dragons tails will turn bright yellow when he is ready to mate.
BY: VICKY KIRKPATRICK
FRILLED SHARK // Chlamydoselachus anguineus
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichtyes
Order: Hexanchiformes
Family: Chlamydoselahidae
Genus: Chlamydoselachus
Back to 2007, a Japanese fisherman saw a strange creature near the ocean’s surface. He calls Awashiwa Marine Park and describe it looks, he said it looks like eel with needle sharp teeth. Then some of the Park’s staff followed him, and identified the strange creature as Frilled Shark, or Chlamydoselachus anguineus. But they also had known by lizard shark because of their lizard-like head.
Chlamydoselachus anguineus, has dark brown or grey body and lives in the ocean depth between 600 and 1,300 meters and sometimes seen on the surface. They prey another bony fishes, squid and sometimes, another shark. The male can grow from 97 to 117 cm length, while the female can grow longer from 135 to 150 cm length. Their mouth is so big and filled with 300 teeth that each of them has three-pronged. Behind the head, there are 6-gill slits that each of them has distinctive frilly margin, the front gill extended underneath the body; end up at the throat and giving appearance like a frilly collar. At the back of their body, there are large and small anal-fins, paddle-shaped pectoral fins and dorsal fins that relatively small at the very back part of the body. They has small tail fin
(Caudal fin) and an upper vestigial lobe that very elongated and extended to the zigzag body.
They are vertebrates that have the longest conceived period, can be up to 3 and a half-year. Usually there are 6 newly shark born at once with 40 to 60 cm long.
Frilled shark can be found almost around the world, but the biggest population of frilled shark was ever found is in Japan and South New Zealand. They’re listed as ‘Near Threatened’ (NT) species by IUCN Red List. Then on August 27th 2004 the very first observation of this animal in its natural habitats was made by ROV- Johnson-Sea-Link II
BY. AISYAH PUTRI GANI
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichtyes
Order: Hexanchiformes
Family: Chlamydoselahidae
Genus: Chlamydoselachus
Back to 2007, a Japanese fisherman saw a strange creature near the ocean’s surface. He calls Awashiwa Marine Park and describe it looks, he said it looks like eel with needle sharp teeth. Then some of the Park’s staff followed him, and identified the strange creature as Frilled Shark, or Chlamydoselachus anguineus. But they also had known by lizard shark because of their lizard-like head.
Chlamydoselachus anguineus, has dark brown or grey body and lives in the ocean depth between 600 and 1,300 meters and sometimes seen on the surface. They prey another bony fishes, squid and sometimes, another shark. The male can grow from 97 to 117 cm length, while the female can grow longer from 135 to 150 cm length. Their mouth is so big and filled with 300 teeth that each of them has three-pronged. Behind the head, there are 6-gill slits that each of them has distinctive frilly margin, the front gill extended underneath the body; end up at the throat and giving appearance like a frilly collar. At the back of their body, there are large and small anal-fins, paddle-shaped pectoral fins and dorsal fins that relatively small at the very back part of the body. They has small tail fin
(Caudal fin) and an upper vestigial lobe that very elongated and extended to the zigzag body.
They are vertebrates that have the longest conceived period, can be up to 3 and a half-year. Usually there are 6 newly shark born at once with 40 to 60 cm long.
Frilled shark can be found almost around the world, but the biggest population of frilled shark was ever found is in Japan and South New Zealand. They’re listed as ‘Near Threatened’ (NT) species by IUCN Red List. Then on August 27th 2004 the very first observation of this animal in its natural habitats was made by ROV- Johnson-Sea-Link II
BY. AISYAH PUTRI GANI
BLOB FISH // Psychrolutes Marcidus
TAXONOMY
· Kingdom: animalia
· Phylum: chordata
· Class: actinopterygii
· Order: scorpaeninformes
· Family: pshychrolutidae
· Genus: psychrolutes
· Species: Psychrolutes marcidus
Blobfish is the common name for this fish, Psychrolutes marcidus is the scientific name for this fish. Blobfish is the most ugliest fish, they live in very deep water, almost on the bottom of the ocean. Blobfish or also called bob sculpin, originated in in the ocean off of Australian and Tasmanian . they live in 800 meter in deep sea.
The pressure in down there is eighty times greater then the pressure in sea level, blobfish skin is like jelly, it’s like a big mass of gel and it have eyes and mouth. The fish average size is 2 feet long. Blobfish has a density that is less than water, that causes that blobfish able to float to the floor of the sea without swimming. This is give a big advantages to blobfish because they don’t have any muscle at all. It’s look like big jelly but has a triangular face with a bad expression. Blobfish don’t do anything to get their food, because they just sitting in the water waiting for something that he can eat come by. It eats mostly sea urchins, mollusk, and crustacean.
by Fabian Erlanda Nasution
· Kingdom: animalia
· Phylum: chordata
· Class: actinopterygii
· Order: scorpaeninformes
· Family: pshychrolutidae
· Genus: psychrolutes
· Species: Psychrolutes marcidus
Blobfish is the common name for this fish, Psychrolutes marcidus is the scientific name for this fish. Blobfish is the most ugliest fish, they live in very deep water, almost on the bottom of the ocean. Blobfish or also called bob sculpin, originated in in the ocean off of Australian and Tasmanian . they live in 800 meter in deep sea.
The pressure in down there is eighty times greater then the pressure in sea level, blobfish skin is like jelly, it’s like a big mass of gel and it have eyes and mouth. The fish average size is 2 feet long. Blobfish has a density that is less than water, that causes that blobfish able to float to the floor of the sea without swimming. This is give a big advantages to blobfish because they don’t have any muscle at all. It’s look like big jelly but has a triangular face with a bad expression. Blobfish don’t do anything to get their food, because they just sitting in the water waiting for something that he can eat come by. It eats mostly sea urchins, mollusk, and crustacean.
by Fabian Erlanda Nasution