When Was the Mariana Snailfish Discovered?
It Is Believed That About 27,000 Feet (8,200 M) Is a Physiological Limit Below Which Nearly All Fishes Cannot Survive. Etymology Named in Honor of One of the...
It is believed that about 27,000 feet (8,200 m) is a physiological limit below which nearly all fishes cannot survive. Etymology Named in honor of one of the officers of the HMS Challenger mission that discovered the
Who discovered the Mariana snailfish?
Now the species known as the Mariana snailfish has its official scientific name: Pseudoliparis swirei, a Latin-inspired designation paying tribute to Herbert Swire, a navigator on the 19th-century expedition that discovered the Mariana Trench.
When was the snailfish discovered?
In October 2008, a UK-Japan team discovered a shoal of Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis snailfish at a depth of approximately 7,700 m (25,300 ft) in the Japan Trench. These were, at the time, the deepest living fish ever recorded on film.
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