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The Dragon fish is a very ferocious looking fish as the Viperfish. It has very big teethes compared to its body. The Dragonfish looks very dangerous, but actually is a little fish that can reach the size of 10cm to 15cm. The Dragonfish or Scaleless Dragonfish (Grammatostomias Flagellibarba) lives on depths of 1500 meters. It has a mouth full of fang like teethes and a barbel on its chin. The barbel of the Dragonfish has a photophore (a light giving organ) which can be used to lure possible prays. Flashing the photophore "on" and "off" lures the prays. It waits until the pray gets to close and then, in a fraction of a second it attacks. The Dragonfish also has photophores on its body to communicate with other Dragonfish, to mate or to distract any othet predator that comes from below. Dragonfishes live in temperate regions around the world and are rarely seen by human eyes.
Here you can clearly see the barble of the DragonFish. |
Book Of The Day
"In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder-in a bout of oceanic hubris-pronounced that there were precisely 176 species of marine fauna and that, ''by Hercules, in the ocean . . . nothing exists which is unknown for us.'' Would that we could summon Pliny from his celestial Hall of Shame and thwack him over the head with Claire Nouvian''s The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss.