Taxonomy Tournament: Fish
Lampriformes. This order is made up of opahs (also known as moonfish or sunfish) and their relatives, such as oarfish, crestfishes, and ribbonfishes
Stomiiformes. This order is made up of deep-sea fishes. It includes dragonfishes, loosejaws, viperfishes, and bristlemouths, the most populated family of vertebrates, with population numbering in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions.
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King Viperfish
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Else Bostelmann (German-American, 1882-1961) - Saber-Toothed Viperfish Attacking Small Fish (1930s)
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round the sound of your shout to the void
and the smell of your blood in the water
deep sea leviathan circles, swims close
from the darkest scarlet place, she arrives
seeking not to join the hooks
sinking their fangs upon you
but to lend you her wrath, her own teeth
and the closest thing her impossible body has
to a hand
deep in the sky is a crimson abyss
so how fast can you fly fish girl
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Daily fish fact #718
Sloane’s viperfish!
It has some of the biggest teeth proportionate to its body, about half of the size of its head! Its teeth are so big that when the fish closes its jaws, many of the teeth curve outside of the mouth instead of fitting inside, and to completely open its jaws to swallow prey whole it must unhinge its jaw and snap its head back. Its teeth are also transparent, to not be visible in the bioluminescent light it produces. It is thought that the daggerlike teeth are used to trap smaller prey, and to wound and hold on to larger prey.
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Viperfish
By: Paul A. Zahl
From: Abyss: The Deep Sea and the Creatures that Live in It
1971
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mermaid friends 💜
if you like my art, please consider tipping me on kofi, it helps a lot! 🙏 https://ko-fi.com/tyiart
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AMBER🍮🦈
Amber takes joy in eating the Cores of other Crystal beings like him and keeping them stored inside his transparent body to showcase as trophies.
Just like the name suggests, he possesses a strange goopy texture that allows him to shapeshift to an extent and trap objects inside. He is heartless and commits such acts for nothing other than fun
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Here she issss, new and improved Reya 🥰
She’s got a huge frill now, with which she uses light and color pulses like a cuttlefish to draw in prey.
She started as a small guppie type mermaid in the shallows, living among a shoal of others like her.
Long story short, she felt a draw to the depths, where she found herself feeding on a strange, massive corpse with the other feeders in reverence of the Whalefall.
She grew to be enormous, devouring the rest of her school, wanting for more gifts from The Endless Sky. Her brain was addled by the darkness.
She’s now one of many gods of the Depths. They worship her as The Deep Star, because of her colorful crest that pulses with colors the creatures of the dark had never seen before.
She lives alone in an abandoned sunken Ladder facility. Well, kind of alone. She has lots of eggs to take care of there. She’s a proud mum 😌
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A piece for a local art contest based on "Mysteries of the Ocean" theme~
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From La Ballena y los animales del mar, illustrated by Gabriele Pozzi, 1985.
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viperfishkin culture is eheh i jus swimmin around :) and then remembering you're in the pool and humans need air and almost drowning bc ur dumb
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Else Bostelmann (German-American, 1882-1961) - A Saber-Toothed Viperfish (1934)
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Viperfish?
fish 57 - viperfish
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Viperfish
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just a little baby man!
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