Ocean conservation group Oceana
announces their online contest for the Freakiest Fish of 2008. All the nominees are for the most part deep sea but not all are fish. Not only did the pram bug make the list but so did several cephalopods. You vote and the winner is announced on Halloween.
Kevin and I strongly urge you to vote for an invertebrate. If an organism with notochord and pharyngeal slits wins, we might just hold this blog and a few others hostage. If the one you pick wins, you are entered in drawing for a pair of tickets to the IMAX "Deep Sea 3D" and one voter will win a copy of "The Deep".
I can’t believe I just voted for a mollusc…sigh…but that damn vampire squid gets my vote for most freaky “fish” of the deep
Am I being blackballed?
A copy of “The Deep”? Oohh… I thought you meant:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075925/
And that list was not complete; no globsters or feejee mermaids.
Yeah, I haven’t quite figured out yet what sets off the spam filter. It is a mystery to me. Yours is the fourth comment to get caught in the net so far. Doesn’t seem to be any clear pattern, nor does there seem to be a way to “trust” certain commenters or train the filter (like in email programs) so just shoot me a line if a comment gets trapped in the filter. I’ll free it.
The glass squid, definitely. Although some of those there vertebrates were pretty freaky.
As well as invertebrates masquerading as fish (ha!), their ‘gulper eel’ is in fact a bigscale fish (family Mlamphaidae). Busted!
nice call on the fish! It is CLEARLY not a gulper eel.
I voted for the Telescope Octopus! Tentacles, ghostly appearance, rotating telescope eyes – what’s not to like? :-)