And I am the most interested fish in deep sea fish. The name is Giant Oarfish. We call it "Ryuuguunotukai" in Japan.
The whole body of Giant oarfish is silver gray.
The fin of a dorsal fin, a pectoral fin, and a ventral fin assumes skillful red, and serves as appearance suitable for "the messenger of Ryuuguu" which is a Japanese name.
Although full length is about 3 m in many cases, the individual which reached 11 m and the weight of 272 kg at the maximum has been reported.
In fishes with the bone which exists now, it is the longest kind in the world at present.
As crushed from right and left, the body flat, and it is thinly long and slender.
Body quantity of a head is the highest and it is tapering off toward a tail.
It does not have a scale and a tooth.
The fin of a ventral fin has only one right and left at a time, and it progresses remarkably long like thread.
The tip of a ventral fin swells in the shape of an oar, and serves as the origin of "Oarfish" which is one of the English names of this kind.
It turns out that many chemoreceptors exist in this swollen portion, and also considers suddenly the function to detect existence of a food living thing.
Giant Oarfish is broadly distributed over open seas of the sea in the world, such as the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the deep sea fish which lives independently without drifting the middle layer which is distant from the seabed, and making a group.
An original habitation region is the deep sea of the open sea away from land, and it does not appear in public rash.
However, the characteristic figure is well known for the pictorial book etc.
The image record which photoed the figure which is actually useful, and in which it is swimming is very scarce.
Therefore, about ecology, it hardly understands.
Usually, it is stood still where most whole body is uprighted.
When moving, the body is leaned aslant, and it is thought that a long dorsal fin is made wave and made and it swims.
It was guessed by investigation of gastric contents that feeding habits were plankton feeding habits, and they have mainly preyed on the crustacea, such as a krill.
It is also a certain large sized fishes that this kind exceeds 5 m, and it is concluded that being preyed except for pelagic sharks is rare.
It is expected that a fry moves to the middle layer with a depth of water of about 200 to 1000 m of deep sea according to growth.
From the strong appearance of the impact, Giant Oarfish is considered to have become a basis of the mighty creature tradition of every corner of the earth.
The existence was known for many years, and it was called "the king of the herring" and was regarded as the sign which divines the success or failure of a fishery in Europe .
In Japan, it was told as a part of "Ryuuguu" tradition or a mermaid as the Japanese name.
Usually, although deep sea is inhabited, the individual wound up and troubled with the billow appears rarely on the coast.
The example which was launched by the seashore or was unintentionally captured by the fishing net may be reported as news.
Many individuals were launched by the beach and a number of years or a front became the center of attention from the Sea of Japan.
In addition, according to several persons' testimony then eaten, it is supposed that the meat of this kind is soft from a white, and it is hardly suitable for edible since there is no taste appropriate for fat.
On the other hand, if it grills with salt, much water will come out, but there is also testimony of being eaten with good appetite the whole skin.
Moreover, Giant Oarfish also has many scholars who insist are related as for an earthquake.
According to them, when Giant Oarfish appears, it is supposed that cautions are required in the long run at the big earthquake.
This is movie of Giant Oarfish From You tube.
http://youtu.be/qeOaumx7wHc
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