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Mermay days 13-15
Mer-Angel - Deep sea has no angels. Don't trust anything claiming to be one...
Abyss Hunter - Stay vigilant when going into the abyss. While the darkness renders you blind, abyss hunters can still see you.
Vent-Sitter - Yeti crab mermaids are large and rare. They sit atop thermal vents to feed and enjoy their fumes. They are often sought out for strange wisdoms.
deep sea
creatures for a project
clownfish, thresher shark, humpback whale, vampire squid, black dragonfish
Fishy Puppet is here (She has important lore but shh)
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Fish fact #709
Black dragonfish!
These deep sea fish go through a very drastic transformation as they mature: the adults that everyone is familiar with start out as tiny, slender, transparent larvae, with the most peculiar stalk-eyes! The cartilaginous stalks can be up to half of the whole larva's body length, and it is theorised that they help the young fish with predator avoidance and finding food. As the fish ages, its eyes are slowly pulled into the head, so to speak.
Below is an adult female to compare!
Pisces
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Black dragonfish are known for their incredible jaws - which can open over 100° wide and have huge teeth [though Males lack canines]. In their larval stage, they eyes are on super long eyestalks. They look so funny! Then they grow all serious looking, as their eyes retreat into their body as they age.
They're sexually dimorphic - males are small [5cm/2in] brown, toothless and always remain below 1000m [3,300ft] though often up to 2000m [6,600ft]. Females are black, larger - growing around 40cm [16in] long and migrate from atleast 500m deep to the surface and back, daily.
Their barbel [which only females have] is bioluminescent, emitting infrared light, which they use it to hunt. And they're venomous!
Fish information can be so inconsistent sometimes. Some sources say they can grow up to 35cm, others 40cm and another 53cm!
And they just leave the boys out.
This is a Black Dragonfish (Idiacanthus atlanticus) bioluminescent creatures found at depths down to 2,000 meters (6,600 ft) in southern subtropical oceans
