#deep sea hatchetfish

[vintagewildlife]

Deep-sea hatchetfish By: Paul A. Zahl From: Abyss: The Deep Sea and the Creatures that Live in It 1971

#deep sea hatchetfish #stomiiform #bony fish #fish #1971 #1970s #Paul A. Zahl #Abyss: The Deep Sea and the Creatures that Live in It

[antiqueanimals]

Plate 48 from A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes, showing deepsea and oceanic fishes that are seldomly encountered by sportsfisherman. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 22, No. 3. 1984.

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#marine life #fish #bony fish #northern lampfish #silver hatchetfish #deep sea hatchetfish #pacific fanfish #pacific pomfret #ox-eyed oreo #mirror dory #pelagic armourhead #pacific flatnose #shoulderspot grenadier #pacific grenadier

[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Deep Sea Hatchetfish

Olive’s wet beast fact: while these nightmares look big and scary, they are only around 2 inches big. Not so terrifying now, huh.

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

#hatchetfish #deep sea hatchetfish #wet beast wednesday #marine biology #aquarium #deep sea #fish #fishblr #oceanposting #sea creatures #marine life #zoology #mariana trench

[a-book-of-creatures]

I think I stumbled upon some kind of ichthyological forbidden knowledge. Opened up a book of names that were never meant to be read.

You've probably heard of "can-opener smoothdream", right? It's practically a meme by now.

But the thing is, it's a deep-sea fish. And deep-sea fish have historically not had English names because nobody drops them into the conversation over a hot cuppa. Sure, there's generic stuff like hatchetfish and barreleye, but when you want to refer to the actual fish you're probably saying such euphonious phrases as Diretmus argenteus, Sternoptyx diaphana, or maybe even Opisthoproctus soleatus.

So whence "can-opener smoothdream"? Certainly no non-ichthyologist has ever used that name. It's not even a direct translation of the scientific name Chaenophryne longiceps - that would be "long-headed gape-toad". Which to me is even cooler than "can-opener smoothdream".

But I digress. The "dream" bit comes from the anglerfish family Oneirodidae, from oneiros, "dream", because those marvelous fishes look like they came out of a dream (Pietsch, 2009).

Note that Pietsch (2009), more or less the anglerfish bible, uses English names at the genus level only. So Chaenophryne is the smoothhead dreamers genus but no mention is made of "can-opener smoothdreams". So no luck there.

Wikipedia, root cause of a lot of misinformation, has this to say.

"Longhead dreamer" is a far more accurate name. And in fact, despite Wikipedia prioritizing "can-opener smoothdream" (because it's funny?), the links listed use "longhead dreamer" and "smoothhead dreamer" as the name and "can-opener smoothdream" as an alternative.

So. Again. Where did "can-opener smoothdream" come from?

The answer, as it turns out, lies with McAllister (1990).

In the book A List of the Fishes of Canada, ichthyologist D. E. McAllister sought out to list every single fish known to Canadian waters, providing both an English and a French name.

And when there wasn't an English name, like for most deep-sea fishes, he arbitrarily gave them a name. And his names "differ in many instances from the widely accepted names" (Holm, 1998)

This had varying results. This is his name for one of the netdevil anglerfishes.

The humpback anglerfish or blackdevil anglerfish becomes a werewolf (????).

This one is just confusing.

The white-spotted lanternfish or Rafinesque's lanternfish instead becomes...

And most embarrassingly, the Mediterranean spiderfish gets saddled with something that "violates the tenet of good taste" (Holm, 1998).

This then is the original source of "can-opener smoothdream". It was invented by an ichthyologist in 1990, and has seen little to no use outside of how bizarre the name is.

Maybe McAllister's goofier names will catch on. Who knows? They certainly aren't very popular in the scientific community though.

References

Holm, E. (1998) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes (review). The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 112, p. 174-175.

McAllister, D. E. (1990) A List of the Fishes of Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.

Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.

#marine biology #fishes #can-opener smoothdream

[strawlessandbraless]

Just some underloved and overlooked deep sea creatures 💙

🌊 First up is this deranged muppet - The Deep Sea Telescopefish

🌊 Hatchetfish - they’re actually really fun at parties

🌊 The Sarcastic Fringehead - cool outfit, horrible personality

🌊Siphonophores - asexual, mostly keep to themselves

🌊 Barreleye fish - lights on but no one’s home

🌊 Vampire Squid - I’m weak for those blue eyes

🌊 The Frilled Shark - excellent hugger

🌊 Giant Isopod - always plotting

🌊 The Umbrella Gulper Eel - bet he’d beat Joey Chestnut in a hot dog eating challenge any day

🌊 The Goblin Shark - sensitive about the size of his nose

🌊 Deep Sea Anglerfish - this is a female, the males are tiny little guys that latch onto the females by biting them, they then meld with the female and basically become a spare set of gonads so the female can reproduce as she pleases. Love that for her

🌊 The ultra black Pacific blackdragon- soul eater

🌊 We’ll end it with the Sea Angel who was captured on film living under the ice of the White Sea in Russia

#deep sea #creatures #ocean aesthetic #benthic #ocean #aquatic life #sea life #sea creatures #marine biology #marine biodiversity #marine science #siphonophores #underwater #marine life #source: internet #telescope fish #vampire squid #cephalopod #love to sea it #anglerfish #fish #frilled shark #goblin shark #giant isopod #sea angel #sea animals #sarcastic fringehead #barreleye fish #gulper eel #Fringehead and sea angel are in shallower water but I included them anyways bc i do what I want

[mbari-blog]

Twinkle twinkle little fish 🌟⁠

The dollar hatchetfish (Sternoptyx diaphana) is about the size of a quarter. These tiny magicians can be found between 400 and 3,675 meters deep (1,312 to 12,057 feet). Light-producing organs in rows along their bellies help these little fish perform a deep-sea disappearing act. ⁠ ⁠ Known as counterillumination, this adaptation allows the fish to match the daylight filtering from surface waters above and effectively hides the animal from predators that may be lurking below. Each species has a unique pattern of lights, and individuals can adapt their lights to whatever color is filtering down from the light above.

#MBARI #DeepSea #Ocean #SeaLife #TwinkleTwinkle #CuteFishOfTumblr

[thicc-astronaut]

I wonder if deep-sea fish have their own version of Buzzfeed that’s always making articles like “Top 15 ugliest land animals that you won’t BELIEVE actually exist!!” and then the entries are like. Grizzly bear. American bullfrog. Eurasian beaver. And all of these little hatchetfish and telescopefish and giant tube worms are sharing pictures of moose to their friends and going “Man ain’t this messed up, isn’t it so freaky that there’s actually animals that look like that?”

#marine biology #deep sea fish

[hatchetmanofficial]

I was going to suggest Alan be a selkie due to having an animal skin and seals being doglike… someone else already drew their guy as a selkie. Maybe a dogfish? They’re a type of shark and could probably lurk in a kelp forest. (The hatchetfish wasn’t large or predatory enough.)

It would be funny for nervous rounded brightly coloured Stu to be a pufferfish mer. Or a goldfish mer.

If Erika was more outwardly feisty I’d suggest a Betta fish mer (Siamese fighting fish.) They’re very fashionable looking fish and a bit intimidating.

Carver would be based on an orca no doubt. (Someone drew theirs already but you can’t say the black and white scheme and playfully sadistic temperament don’t match. It’s called a killer whale.) Or an eel. Or a sea snake.

Stitches would probably be based on some scary deep sea creature like an anglerfish, an anemone (with his belly) or an octopus.

while interesting-

they live in the woods

forest animals baybeee

[whisperthatruns]

Bioluminescence

There’s a dark so deep beneath the sea the creatures beget their own light. This feat, this fact of adaptation, I could say, is beautiful

though the creatures are hideous. Lanternfish. Hatchetfish. Viperfish. I, not unlike them, forfeited beauty to glimpse the world hidden

by eternal darkness. I subsisted on falling matter, unaware from where or why matter fell, and on weaker creatures beguiled

by my luminosity. My hideous face opening, suddenly, to take them into a darkness darker and more eternal than this underworld

underwater. I swam and swam toward nowhere and nothing. I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going

even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life, the terrestrial made possible by and thereby 

dependent upon light, I did what I had to do. I stalked. I killed. I wanted to feel in my body my body at work, working to stay

alive. I swam. I kept going. I waited. I found myself without meaning to, without contriving meaning at the time, in time, in the company

of creatures who, hideous like me, had to be their own illumination. Their own god. Their own genesis. Often we feuded. Often we fused

like anglerfish. Blood to blood. Desire to desire. We were wild. Bewildered. Beautiful in our wilderness and wildness. In the most extreme conditions

we proved that life can exist. I exist. I am my life, I thought, approaching at last the bottom of the sea. It wasn’t the bottom. It wasn’t the sea.

Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Books, 2022)

#paul tran #bioluminescence #all the flowers kneeling #poetry

[sixty-silver-wishes]

9 for the ask game! :3

Probably a giant pacific octopus! They’re so cool and really smart; I read this really interesting book called “the soul of an octopus” where some researchers studied octopodes (yeah) at an aquarium and found they had distinct personalities and preferences towards certain trainers. unfortunately they only live for a few years, so I think it would be really emotionally damaging to bond with a creature that smart, and not be able to spend that much time with it.

that being said, my second choice is a deep sea hatchetfish. imagine

[overthinkingtaleblr]

Mermay “Day Six” - Mushroom

Character - Cardboard Friend

YES I’m skipping day 5 for now, I have no idea what a Cinco De Mayo mermaid would look like. I’m already incredibly behind, so saving someone for later doesn’t feel like the end of the world. I chose the deep-sea hatchetfish because from the front they do the same face as CBF. Further, they are dressing in a deep sea mushroom bc i thought it’d be cute and a good way to fufill the prompt.

I’m not submitting the pictures I make, but here’s the website I’m getting the prompts from:

[vintagewildlife]

Deep sea hatchetfish By: Unknown photographer From: Disney's Worlds of Nature 1965

#deep sea hatchetfish #stomiiform #bony fish #fish #1965 #1960s #Disney's Worlds of Nature

[jaxx-a-phone]

Introducing: Double Mermay!!

A challenge where you use the regular Mermay prompts, as well as a randomly selected fish to base the drawing/character off of! You can use any list of fish you want, but here’s the one I’m using! (Deep sea fish)

Slender Snipe Eel

Viperfish

Gulper Eel

Barreleye

Ribbon Sawtail Fish

Sarcastic Fringehead

Marine Hatchetfish

Atlantic Hagfish

Frilled Shark

Chimaera

Fangtooth

Hadal Snailfish

Mueller Fish

Lophiomus

Coelacanth

Stargazer Fish

Goblin Shark

Zombie Worms

Predatory Tunicate/Ghostfish

Vampire Squid

Tripod Fish

Dumbo Octopus

Boa Dragonfish

Snailfish

Highfin Lizard Fish

Blind Eel

Parasitic Louse

Roughhead Grenadier

Solumbellula Sea Pen

Sea Pig

Siphonophore

Ghost Shark

Cookiecutter Shark

Bobbit Worm

Yeti Crab

Pompeii Worm

Red-Lipped Batfish

Hairy Anglerfish

Pink Sea-Through Fantasia

Christmas Tree Worm

Basket Star

Whale Shark

Phronima Sedentaria

Promachoteuthis Sulcus

Terrible Claw Lobster

Pacific Blackdragon

Mantis Shrimp

Also all of the regular Mermay prompts!

#mermay #double MerMay #drawing challenge #fishblr #fish #deep sea fish #deep sea #art challenge

[caramelmarinebiologist]

Deep Sea Hatchetfish

Their silver-colored thorax, which resembles the blade of a hatchet, gave these fish their eerie moniker. In the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans,  50 metres deep are home to the hatchetfish. Because of their bioluminescent qualities,  they can seek their prey in the shadowy  depths of the ocean.

#marine biology #marine animals #deep sea #🪓 #fish

[kapsyl]

and you might think "ok so go to therapy" but thing is deep sea hatchetfish

[dude-ew-gross]

Three mermaid varieties

1: shallow/coral. Pretty, with a variety of tails, and come in all shapes/sizes. smaller than what you'd expect, inhabits coral caves/grottos/coves that are tough to get to. They hang out in schools, rarely are they alone. They eat octopus, smaller fish, and sometimes scare or be scared by scuba divers. Too big to be seen as prey, but some do have scars from being mistaken as such.

2: Open water. Getting bigger. These maids are muscular, with tails of a more dolphin/shark variety. They start in pods but as they age they split off and join another or start their own. They hunt in groups. They are hunted by orcas, sharks, and the occasional fisherman.

3: deep sea. Holy shit. The sizes and shapes vary from the humble hatchetfish to the colassal squid. Depths unfathomable, the larger they get. These are the gods of the sea.

#mermay #wanted to post earlier but decided to save for later