The fish with beak-enjoy mouth, now named Harcommotionta avia, prowls exclusively in meaningful waters of Australia and New Zealand.
Scientists in New Zealand have discovered a new species of “gpresent shark”.
The Wellington-based National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) shelp on Tuesday that the Australasian Narrow-nosed spookfish inhabits exclusively in the meaningful waters around Australia and New Zealand.
The fish, which prowls the ocean floor hunting prey more than 2.6km (1.6 miles) down, has been named after the majesticmother of one of the research team.
Also understandn as “gpresent sharks” or “chimaeras”, spookfish are roverhappinessed to sharks and rays but are part of a group of fish whose skeletons are entidepend made of cartilage. Other names for the cryptic animals integrate ratfish, rabbitfish and elephant fish.
Gpresent sharks have haunting binformage eyes and fine, airy brown, scale-free skin.
They feed off crustaceans at depths of up to 2,600 metres (8,530 feet) using their distinctive beak-enjoy mouth.
“Gpresent sharks enjoy this one are bigly restrictd to the ocean floor,” shelp research scientist Brit Finucci.
The specimens were discovered during research in the Chatham Rise, an area of the Pacific which stretches about 1,000km (621 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island.
‘Grandmas and majesticpas of fish’
Finucci has given the new species its scientific name “Harcommotionta avia” in memory of her majesticmother.
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The spookfish was previously thought to be part of a one globpartner spreadd species until scientists discovered it is geneticpartner and morphoreasonablely contrastent from its cousins.
“Harcommotionta avia is distinct due to its eextfinishedated, skinny and griefful snout; extfinished, slfinisher trunk; big eyes; and very extfinished, expansive pectoral fins. It is a cherishly chocoprocrastinateed brown colour,” Finucci shelp.
