Candy Basslet

Fish > Basslets & Groupers

The Candy Basslet (Liopropoma carmabi) is widely celebrated among marine biologists, deep-sea aquanauts, and underwater photographers as one of the most breathtakingly radiant fishes inhabiting the world’s oceans. Residing far below normal recreational scuba...

Curved-Nose Elephantfish

Fish > Elephantfishes

The Curved-Nose Elephantfish (Campylomormyrus curvirostris) is one of the most anatomically extraordinary freshwater teleost fishes endemic to the sprawling, turbid channels of Central Africa’s Congo River basin. Belonging to the ancient osteoglossomorph family...

Brianne’s Groppo

Fish > Groppos

Brianne’s Groppo (Grammatonotus brianne) is a breathtakingly vibrant, deep-water reef fish belonging to the family Callanthiidae (splendid perches), described to science in 2016 from deep mesophotic coral reefs off Batangas in the Philippines. Discovered during...

Lined Conger

Fish > Conger Eels

The Lined Conger (Bathycongrus guttulatus) is a benthic marine eel belonging to the family Congridae (conger and garden eels), inhabiting deep continental shelf and upper slope seabeds throughout the Western Central Atlantic Ocean. Residing in cold, dim waters between...

Vaillant’s Dragonfish

Fish > Dragonfish

Vaillant’s Dragonfish (Bathophilus vaillanti) is an elusive, predatory deep-sea fish belonging to the family Stomiidae (barbeled dragonfishes), inhabiting the perpetual darkness of the central Atlantic Ocean at depths ranging from 400 down to over 2,000 meters....

Atacama Blue Snailfish

Fish > Snailfishes

The Atacama Blue Snailfish (Paraliparis selti), discovered in 2022 during high-tech robotic lander expeditions into the abyssal Atacama Trench off the coast of northern Chile and Peru, is an astonishing hadal vertebrate thriving at crushing depths exceeding 6,000 to...

Pacific Viperfish

Fish > Dragonfishes

The Pacific Viperfish (Chauliodus macouni) is one of the most iconic, fearsome apex ambush predators of the deep Pacific abyss. Inhabiting the perpetual twilight and midnight oceanic zones from the subarctic waters of the Bering Sea to the subtropics of Baja...

Subterranean Cryptic Catfish

Fish > Catfish

The Subterranean Cryptic Catfish (Kryptoglanis shajii) is an enigmatic, stygobitic troglomorphic fish native to subterranean freshwater aquifer labyrinths in Kerala, southwestern India. First formally described in 2011, this bizarre pinkish-white subterranean catfish...

Gollum Snakehead

Fish > Snakeheads

The Gollum Snakehead (Aenigmachanna gollum) is an astonishing, subterranean ‘living fossil’ fish discovered in 2019 following catastrophic monsoon flooding in Kerala, southern India. Named after Tolkien’s cavern-dwelling character Gollum, this...

Kobyliansky’s Deepsea Smelt

Fish > Deep-Sea Fishes

Kobyliansky’s Deepsea Smelt (Bathylagichthys kobylianskyi) is an enigmatic, large-eyed argentiniform fish native to the freezing, lightless mesopelagic depths of the Southern Ocean. Named in honor of Russian ichthyologist Stanislav Kobyliansky, this deep-water...