The most amazing fish of the world

All the waters of our planet are densely populated by various inhabitants. Sometimes in the depths of the seas and oceans, rivers and lakes there are such amazing fish that people have not even heard of. Read in the article below all the most interesting about strange (and sometimes terrible) fish.

Pike pike

Pants pike are the largest fish that live in the fresh waters of North and Central America, as well as the islands of Cuba. Their body is covered with a shell of surprisingly strong scales (hence the name). The second name of these awesome creatures is the fish-alligator.

They are very similar in form to the head of these two aquatic inhabitants. The weight of the pike reaches 120 kg, and the length of the body is up to 300 cm. The heavy fish body prevents it from performing dexterous maneuvers in water, so the alligator fish, like the usual pike, is waiting for its victim in the ambush. It feeds on smaller fish, does not disdain ducks and small-sized waterfowl. In addition, these amazing fish often eat waste, thereby purifying the pond.

Pancake pike because of its appearance and size is considered an enviable catch for a fisherman. But you should know that her meat is little used for food, it is tasteless and tough. Caviar is poisonous to humans.

Shifted Shark

Japanese fishermen know exactly what the most amazing fish look like, because one day they managed to get a female plucked shark in the net. This most ancient kind of sharks is the most unexplored, mysterious. Very rarely such a fish emerges to the surface, preferring depths from 500 to 1000 meters.

Appearance of a plasplant differs from sharks, it is more like an eel or a sea snake. And the creature hunts, almost like a snake, bending the body and making a sharp leap forward. Paid shark has no commercial value, since it rarely enters the network, because its length is about 2 meters. Fishermen of Japan even call it a pest, as it happens that the shark spoils the nets.

Interesting fish is that among all vertebrates has the longest period of gestation - 3.5 years. There may be up to 15 young in the litter. Placental shark is a viviparous fish.

Fish-moon - harmless giant

The fish-moon has impressive dimensions: length - up to 3 m, weight - about 1400 kg. Her huge body has a round (like a disk of the moon) shape and is strongly flattened from the sides. These amazing fish at a young age swim like other fish, but then everything changes.

Adult individuals swim near the water surface, occasionally lazily moving fins. At the approach of man, the fish-moon practically does not react. They do not harm a person. However, South African fishermen have a superstitious fear, seeing this fish, and even cancel fishing, turning boats to the house. This can be explained simply - the approach of the individual is associated with the onset of the storm on the sea, since the fish-moon often appears just before the storm near the shore. It simply can not cope with the increasing current.

This giant of bony fish feeds on small and easy prey: small fishes, jellyfish, plankton and small crustaceans.

Amazing fish of the world: fish-stone

This ugly and terrible creature, living in the ocean, is very poisonous. A small fish (no more than 20 cm in length) has a very large head, small eyes and a huge mouth. The naked body has a brownish color, sometimes with spots or stripes. On the trunk are hillocks, warts, so the creature is sometimes also called a warthog. From the dorsal fin of fish-stone sticking poisonous spikes.

At any touch, the fish stabs its thorns and releases a very dangerous poison. A person without an antidote can die within a few hours after meeting a dangerous seabed inhabitant.

Most often, stone fish lives in thickets of algae or coral. She buries herself in silt or sand, she masks herself with mud. It's not just a lazy way of life - it's a hunt in ambush. Predators feed on small fish, shrimps and crustaceans.

Interesting fish and the fact that it can hold out without water for a long time. A case was recorded when a stone fish lived on land for 20 hours!

The most "sad" fish in the world

Fish-drop is known for its unpleasant appearance, which distinguishes it from other species. Deep-water inhabitant of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans is most often found off the coast of Australia, Tasmania.

What is so unpleasant about these amazing fish? Body up to 70 cm long completely naked, does not have scales. Fins are also absent. The body of a fish-drop is very similar to a formless gelatinous mass with sad eyes. Her nose resembles a human. There is no swimming bladder in individuals of this species - at great depth it is not needed. There is no fish-drop and musculature, it just floats down the river with an open mouth, into which food comes. Most often this food is plankton.

What can make a fish-drop attractive in the eyes of people? Her care for the offspring. She carefully incubates her eggs and does not disregard the younger generation.

Lamprey - marine parasites

Collecting amazing facts about fish, you can not fail to mention lamprey. There are these creatures in all temperate waters of the Earth and even occasionally in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. There are references to lampreys in Russia, especially for the largest lakes and rivers.

Appearance of the individual is close to the eel. Skin without scales, there are no pectoral and pelvic fins. The mouth has an awesome appearance: annular, with many small teeth. Lamprey - it's a parasite, eating most often meat of dead fish, not disdain and live fish. With a ring-shaped lamprey, it sucked into the victim's body and drilled it. A strong tongue with teeth at the end penetrates deep into the body of the victim and lets the juices.

Catching of lamprey is common. It is believed that its meat is very tasty, but not every gourmet will risk it.

The most amazing fish in the world: deep-water tripod

On the seabed there are quite a lot of inhabitants, and most of them have an awesome appearance: a pirate, a makroosus, bigals and others. Here lives also a tripod fish, famous for its three legs, as the name suggests. In fact, of course, these are not legs, but bony rays that extend from the body almost a meter. Dropping closer to the bottom, they are supported by a tripod. When it stands, the rays are rigid, as soon as the fish swims, the rays immediately soften. The tripod itself regulates their rigidity.

Another difference from fish that live at great depths are well-developed eyes located on the sides of the trunk. This is one of the ways of survival for tripods. The fish is a hermaphrodite, as it is rare to find an individual of the right sex at great depths.

The amazing fish, photos of which you see in this article, live all over the world. Their huge number on our planet, and it's simply impossible to tell about everything in one article. Here are selected one of the most interesting representatives of salty and fresh waters of the world.