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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Is this another situation like the blobfish, where the photos of it are just what it looks like when the body has been destroyed from the change in pressure but it actually looks underwhelming at the depths it normally lives in?

[–] LongLive 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] kamenlady 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is assessed as having the conservation status of least concern by IUCN. In June 2018, the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified R. pacifica as "not threatened" with the qualifier "data poor" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

So, feeding the threat classification system with poor data, makes it classify the specimen as "not threatened"?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's strange to label it as "not threatened" when there is a "data deficient" label available.

It appears that the "data deficient" label is avoided as much as possible:

https://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/sap244.pdf Page 27

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Can we please change the subject? I fear our govt (which is trying to drill in nature reserves currently) will gleefully latch onto this!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Nah it's more like the population is unknown. It lives deep enough that we rarely encounter them, making it difficult to estimate how many them are

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And what does it eat? What teeth does it have?

EDIT:

Chimaeras, also known as rat fish, or ghost sharks, include three living families and a little over 50 species of surviving holocephalans. These fishes move by using sweeping movements of their large pectoral fins. They are deep sea fish with slender tails, living close to the seabed to feed on benthic invertebrates. They lack a stomach, their food moving directly into the intestine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

There are nice creatures in the Ocean, like eg. an 55m long toxic Worm (Lineus longissimus). If you know which creature you can find in the Ocean you prefer to make vacation on the mountain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It is possible, there are exactly 6 seamonsters missing

[–] shalafi 3 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That's a messed up looking dogfish.