A New Species of fish Has Been Discovered

Posted Mar 02, 2009 by miuw / comments 0 comments / Print / Font Size Decrease font size Increase font size

This new spesies of fish discovered by scuba diving instructors working for a tour a year ago. That sport divers then sent picture of that fish to Ted Pietsch, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences . The fish has now been officially named as a new species.

3 days ago, when i woke up in the morning i watched the news program at television. It says that a new species of fish has been discovered. This new spesies of fish discovered by scuba diving instructors working for a tour a year ago. That sport divers then sent picture of that fish to Ted Pietsch, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences ( the picture reminded him of two faded, damaged frogfish speciments from Bali, Indonesia,  he had been storing since 1992) . The fish he received from scuba divers  sighted in Indonesia water off Ambon, Maluku, has now been officially named  "Psychedelica", as a new species.

it behaves unusually, squirting out little jet of water to push themselves forward. unlike other species of frogfish, which also have leg-like pectoral fins on either side of their body, psychedelica actually prefer crawling than swiming. everytime they strike the sea floor, they use their fins to push off, bounces on the sea floor like a rubber ball.

Beside those, they have flat face surrounded by fleshy cheeks, with forward looking eyes like human, and a huge yawning mouth. the skin of the body is thick, has tan and peach coloured also white swirling stripes radiating from the eyes and continuing back to the body and tail. it looks so weird but also beautiful. The world is so wide and has a tremendous diversity. Maybe there are many creatures that have not been found yet by human. Perhaps some day a new species can be found again.

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