![]() ![]() ![]() The podcast Just the Zoo of Us, whose account originally posted the question to which Arnott responded, addressed the effects of such an environment on the blobfish in a 2019 episode. Pls DONATE HERE - Russell Arnott July 9, 2020 If everyone donated just $0.01 we can keep making great content! People have kept loving the blobfish thru the night!įYI is a non-profit marine education group that has had all our income removed by CoViD. ![]() Living at depths greater than 2,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface, where no light penetrates and species are acclimated to incredible pressure, the environment in which the blobfish lives is very different from those experienced by fish living in shallow water ecosystems. Several of those species, including the gooey pink specimen-the smooth-head blobfish Psychrolutes marcidus-most famously associated with the blobfish name, are residents of deep sea abyssal zones in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, particularly in the waters around Australia and New Zealand. "To a degree, the blobfish is the victim of a vast bullying campaign!" Arnott told Newsweek in response to an emailed request for comment.īlobfish is a common name for the family Psychrotidae, which includes about 40 species of toadfish and sculpins. As it is clear that the moniker "blobfish" is no longer fit for purpose (after all the fish isn't normally a blob), we shall now only refer to the fish, Psychrolutes marcidus, by its common name, the Stubblefish (as suggested by #blobfishnomore /cJAwZEN08P- Russell Arnott July 10, 2020 ![]()
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