Strange Underwater Creatures

Do you love sea foods? I always love fish, crabs, shrimps or any sea food cuisine on my dinning table. Visiting many countries like in Asia, sometimes they serve you with their exotic delicacies and be amazed that this ‘poisonous’ fish is a good delicacy. And would you believe that this kind of species are very expensive, like the Fugu fish in Japan, (take note only professional chef could cook this kind of puffer fish species). And there are many kind of fish species existing in our seas and rivers.

1) Goliath Tigerfish

Found mostly in the river of Congo, Zambezi River, Lake Kariba in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Cabora Bassa in Mozambique.

2) Frilled Shark

Frill sharks found in deep sea water about 1,500 meters deep with six gills, identifying it as shark. It grows as 7′ in maximum length.

3) Goblin Shark

Goblin shark, like the frilled shark are found in the deepest sea of 1,300 meters. Goblin sharks are first discovered in the deep seas of Japan.

4) Piranha Fish

Piranha or Pirana, are omnivorous fresh water fish and inhabitants in the rivers of South America. Also found in the rivers of Venezuela, and commonly called Caribes. Their sharp teeth like razors could tear flesh of their prey with their voracious appetite for meat. Piranhas are found in American basin in Orinoso in the rivers of the Guyana.

The red-bellied piranhas are known for being ferocious that could tear the flesh of its victims in seconds because of their razor-like teeth. The red-bellied piranhas are found in Amazon River Basin, Paraguay river basin, Essiquibo rivers and the coastal rivers of North Eastern Brazil.

5) Lamprey Eel

An aquatic parasitic marine, a funnel-like toothed-sucking mouth. They suck the blood of their preys. Their names are based on stone-licker, lives mostly in coastal and fresh waters, though some Geotria Australis species travels in open ocean between New Zealand and Australia.

6) Pelican Eel

Pelican eel, named after the Pelican bird because it resembles like the pelican beak. Found in the deep sea and rarely seen by human except when caught by fishing nets. It is sometimes called umbrella-mouth gulper.

7) Big Ocean Sun Fish

The ocean big Sun Fish or sometimes called Mola-Mola are found, heaviest known bony fish in the world. The sun fish eats jelly fish for their meal. They are related with the puffer fish and porcupine fish. Mola mola are also delicacy in Korea and Japan and some Asian country, but is now banned selling meats of sunfish in the markets.

Crustacean (Baby Isopod)

The baby Isopod or Ceratoserolis was discovered in an expedition in the water of  Antartica. Ceratoserolis are just one of the 585 new species of isopods.

9) Giant Hatchet Fish

Giant -Hatchet Fish, mostly found in deep waters of tropical and sub-tropical waters of all oceans except North Pacific. It length’s between 8 to 12 centimeters. The hatchet fish are deep-bodied species with large eyes directed upwards, enable their see their prey from the light coming the surface of waters and also their mouth upwards to catch their prey easily.

10) Mantis Shrimps

Mantis shrimps or Locusts shrimps, known to ancient Assyrians or native of Syria, and in Australia it is commonly called “prawn killers”, because of their abilities inflicting injuries to their preys, resembling to ‘praying mantis’ and that’s how they acquired the name mantis shrimps.

The peacock Mantis shrimps obviously got its name from the peacock because of its colorful body. The colorful stomatopod specie are found in the Andamari sea near Thailand.

11) Axolotl

Axolotls are amphibians commonly found in Lake Xochimiko, Mexico.

12) Mudskipper Fish

The Mudskipper fish can stay by land aside in water. Commonly found in Indo-Pacific in the Atlantic coast of Africa. These species are more active in land than in water. (bountyfishing.com)

13) Spotted Hand Fish

The spotted-handfish or Brachionichthys hirsutus, are rare types of fish that can walk across the ocean floors, like the mudskippers, red-lipped bat fish, axolotls and the African lungfish that can walk through the use of their pectoral fins.

14) Red-Lipped Bat Fish

The Red-lipped batfish or Ogcocephalus Darwini have a bright red lips, thus they are named red-lipped. They are poor swimmers but can walk on ocean floors hunting for foods like shrimps, mollusks, crabs, worms and small fish.

15) African Lung-Fish

The African Lungfish can survive in the land. They can breath with their mouth during dry season as long they are in the moist ground.

16) Siamese Fighting Fish

The Siamese fighting fish can never be put together especially the both males, they will attack and kill each other. They are also called the “Beta fish”.

17) Northern Sea Horse

Northern Seahorse carry their eggs in a special abdominal pouch like seen in this picture.

18) Leafy Sea Dragons

The Leafy-sea-dragon are unusual seahorse can be found off the off the Southern and Western coast of Australia. The male carries their eggs during reproduction,  which is fixed to their underside of their tails. They feed themselves with shrimps, small fish, crustaceans, mysid and plankton.

19) Talking Catfish

Talking catfish or Spiny catfish got its name from the strange noise they make from time to time. They make a croaking stange sounds. They are nocturnal fish, that’s why they are not visible during daytime.

20) Lump Fish

The largest specie of lump fish can grow as big as 23 cm and weigh about 14 pounds. They belong to the Cylopterus Lumpus species found off the Orient, New York. Female lump fish are bigger than the male.