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A strange mouth, ridiculous vertebrae with 750 fish

author:Xiao Li loves Kan

I believe you can also see that in addition to the strangely long body, the beaked kissing eel also has a strange mouth, this mouth you can't find a second on earth, it seems to be always pouting for kisses. Such a look definitely breaks through the limits of human imagination, and it seems that only nature can shape this strange thing!

A strange mouth, ridiculous vertebrae with 750 fish

There are 3 genera and 9 species under the line eel family (Snipe Eel), of which the beaked snout eel (Avocettina infans) is the most bizarre-looking animal I have ever seen, they live in the 200-meter deep sea, the most obvious feature is long, incredibly long, coupled with a thin body, people also gave it another name: nemichthys.

A strange mouth, ridiculous vertebrae with 750 fish

This ridiculous length also gives it a ridiculous number of vertebrae – 750, only 33 for humans! Despite this, they have very little meat, and their body length reaches 1.2 meters and they weigh only like a small hamster!

A strange mouth, ridiculous vertebrae with 750 fish

Why does the mouth grow like this?

A strange mouth, ridiculous vertebrae with 750 fish

Avocettina infans is a species of ray-finned eel in the order Glutinous eels. It is found in the sea between the tropical region north of 15° south latitude and the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. The lateral line has a row of large holes; the caudal fin does not elongate backwards in a filamentous manner. The dorsal fin starts above the base of the pectoral fin. There are fewer than 750 vertebrae; the fin starts far behind the base of the pectoral fin. Males mature with two jaw shortened perverted behaviors. It can reach a length of 1.2 meters. Deep-sea fish, inhabiting deep water layers of 50 to 4571 m. It is a small fish.