Ocean World is part of nature, and it contains many mysteries and mysteries that are not well known. A few years ago, the American Life Science website listed 20 of the most bizarre and bizarre fish species. Today, Sanshui will take everyone to know them together.
1. Parrotfish
The parrotfish is mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical coral reef waters, and because it has many small teeth, these teeth are very similar to the mouth of the parrot, so it is named parrotfish. It is reported that the body color and body shape of female and male fish vary according to age.
2. Batfish
It is very strange and bat-like, and its terrible ugly appearance can scare off other fish that come to invade.
3. Sturgeon
At first glance it doesn't look like a fish, but it looks more like coral rocks on the ocean floor. They are seafloor fish, often hiding in the seabed seaweed for food.
4. Tsing Yi, California
It roams between the reefs and seaweeds of Monterey Bay, and its appearance is very peculiar, but surprisingly they are "transgender", and all the newborn California Tsings are females, and only partially transform into males until they reach adulthood.
5. Sunfish
From the front, it looks like a shark, with high spinal fins like a shark, but from the side, the sunfish has only the front half of its body and missing its tail. Although this fish can grow very large, it swims slowly, and as long as there are waves in the sea, it will turn around and cannot maintain balance.
6. Long-tailed leather single-spined pufferfish
It has a prominent mouth, a large tail, and a body covered with dark spots and patterns, and is mainly active on the seabed.
7. Manta rays
Pictured here is a manta ray swimming on the ocean floor with a diver, an adult manta ray with a peculiar large triangular pectoral fin and protruding head fin, its skin is smooth, its head has a wide square mouth, and its tail is invertebrate. The largest manta rays can reach more than 1 ton.
8. Electric rays
When it lurks in the sand layers of the seabed, many fish can't tell the difference, and its flat body and black spots are the best camouflage tools. Interestingly, this animal hunts by releasing electricity to stun its prey.
9. Green American eel
Pictured here is an oncoming green jaguar with a very special skin, which is very different from other fish with fish scales, and its folds are rough like bark or rock layers.
10, 鮟鱇
This animal mainly lives on the seabed of the temperate zone of 1000 meters, it is the best at camouflage, and its body color can change with the color of the surrounding environment. Its shape looks a lot like a pan with a handle from top to bottom.
11. Bat stingray
It is usually 4-5 feet long, but its wingspan can reach 8 feet, and its body is flattened, preferring to move on the seabed. They can live up to 25 years, the defensive weapon is the tail fish hook, and the female bat stingray grows faster and larger, and lives longer than the male bat stingray.
12. Angelfish
The angelfish is small oval in shape, golden in color, with tan bands on the eyes, a silvery-white mouth, a black band on the gill cover, and a black jaw. The dorsal fin is covered with blue patterns with yellow edges, the fins are dark blue with black markings, and the caudal fins are yellow.
13. Butterfly fish
The butterfly fish has four eyes and black eye-like spots on its tail, and it inhabits mostly reefs off the coast of Florida. Since butterflyfish are lifelong single mates, it is often seen that butterfly fish are two together. If two butterfly fish face each other, it looks like a colorful butterfly.
14. Squid
The sturgeon is a tropical scaly fish with a bright blue color and a very special dorsal and caudal fin.
15. Wolf eel
Its head is ugly and fierce, with a long, tortuous body like other eels, and its teeth are so hard that it can crush most of the seabed crustaceans.
16. Yellow hard phosphorus fish
Usually the body color of the hard phosphorus fish is black and white, but Flauer Gardens, a fish biologist at texas A&M University, discovered a yellow hard phosphorus fish, which he initially thought was a new species, and finally determined that it belonged to a rare hard phosphorus fish.
17. Leopard toad fish
It has a large, flattened head, a large mouth, and many fleshy protrusions on its body. It is mainly active between reefs and rock crevices, dominated by mollusks and crustaceans.
18. Snake cod
Ugly and vicious in appearance, the snake cod is a rare fish in the western waters of North America, and it has important commercial value and is an ornamental tropical fish.
19. Cod
Pictured here is a cod caught in a gillnet, which is bright red in color and lives mainly in cold seas.
20. Spear high-finned fish
Also known as the folding knifefish, it resembles a folding knife and resembles a totoaba in its infancy.
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