What are people with deep-sea phobia afraid of? Are you afraid of the icy waters, or the bottomless oceans, or the huge monsters hiding in the deep sea?
Many people think that jellyfish are very beautiful, but in fact, they are not, such as Styx waterfish, its shape is very strange.
Friends who have watched the "Harry Potter" series of movies, I believe that everyone is impressed by the Dementors that appeared in the third step of "Prisoner of Azkaban", and the horror image of this Dementor is also the childhood shadow of many post-90s friends.
However, in fact, there is also an animal in the animal kingdom that looks like this dementor, and its name still sounds quite domineering - Styx jellyfish. This jellyfish looks very similar to the Dementors in Harry Potter.
The whisker-like tentacles on ordinary jellyfish become satin-like wrists on styracian waterfish; ordinary jellyfish look transparent, while Styx waterfish are black-red opaque.
Styx is one of the largest jellyfish after the Arctic Jellyfish, whose name derives from the Styx River that passes through Hell in Greek mythology.
The Styx is a river that flows to the underworld, and with the figure of Medusa, it feels very scary, which also proves how terrible the shape of this jellyfish is.
In 1901, this Styx was first discovered by humans, and in the following 110 years, humans met it 115 times, which is on average the degree of seeing each other once a year.
Styx waterfish is smaller than the lion's mane jellyfish, its umbrella diameter is up to 1 meter, the length of the mouth and wrist can reach about 10 meters, and the sea area 500-2000 meters below the sea surface is where this jellyfish often stays. However, it has a wide distribution range, including Antarctic waters and Japanese waters.
Styx waterfish look terrible, but their predation method is not to secrete toxins, because their mouth and wrist areas are not poisonous. In addition, styx jellyfish is an invertebrate carnivorous organism.
Styx jellyfish live in deep seas of about 500 to 2000 meters, with the largest individual body umbrella diameter of about 1.4 meters and the body length (including tentacles) reaching 11 meters. It does not have the viscous spine-like tentacles of other jellyfish species, but has 5 sheet-like antennae that extend up to 6 meters and has four well-developed wrists around the mouth.
There are many folds at the edge of the umbrella, and the longitudinal muscle under the umbrella is well developed. Its head is black and red, and its open tentacles resemble a mage's robe, but the dark gray makes people feel eerie.
Research on the living habits of this jellyfish is very lacking, and its distribution is relatively wide, and it has been found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans.