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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
The ocean pout really has no reason to be upset! This species has evolved to survive the near-freezing waters off the Canadian coast by; they can survive the cold thanks to antifreeze chemicals in their blood, which prevents ice crystals from forming in the same way that antifreeze in a car keeps the engine from icing over.
(Image: An ocean pout (Zoarces americanus) by Derek Keats)
Mariana Trench meme I just made that I must share
Sad lil Ocean Pout (Marcrozoarces americanus)
Hello! I work for my school’s natural history collections so I understand all the laws and have all the permits I need to care for my dead things. This piece is not a personal collection piece but the schools
This eelpout is the 28th species in the genus Pachycara :D
Pachycara caribbaeum is described from specimens collected from an active hydrothermal vent field at a depth of about 2300 m at the Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre of the Caribbean Sea. The new species is distinguished from its congeners mainly by its few pectoral fin rays, low vertebral counts, single, mediolateral branch of the lateral line system and presence of scales on the nape and cheeks.
Eelpouts of the genus Pachycara are found from upper bathyal to abyssal depths in all oceans except the Arctic The 27th species was recently described from the southwestern Pacific.
Photo: In situ observations of Pachycara caribbaeum with sparse Rimicaris hybisae and Lebbeus virentova shrimp from ROV by Anderson, Somerville & Copley
Reference (open access): Anderson et al. 2016. A new species of Pachycara Zugmayer, 1911 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from deep-sea chemosynthetic environments in the Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa
Aggregation of gastropods (Tacita zenkevitchi) at 5329 meteres in the Peru-Chile Trench, Pacific Ocean, also visible are a zoarcid (eelpout), a small liparid (Snailfish) and a large macrourid (grenadier).
footage by de Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst
