In the latest in a series of nature’s ugliest animals, a sea turtle conservation group in Brazil has fished up the dead carcass of what was thought to be a previously unknown species.  While the gelatinous, 6-foot-long fish isn’t some new species, it is an incredibly rare deep sea bottom-feeding fish known as the jellynose fish (or the tadpole fish), a squishy-nosed, scaleless bottom-feeder typically found 1300 to 2300 feet below the ocean’s surface, eating whatever it can suck up off the ocean floor.

While the fish has been placed in a family, it is unclear whether or not it is a new species within that family of fish.  One thing for sure is that the fish has never been seen or caught off the coast of Brazil, meaning this is a previously unknown area for the jellynose to be prowling in, as far as ichthyologists are concerned.  No one is in really much of a hurry to figure out just what sort of fish this actually is, since it can’t be eaten, is rare either way, and has no commercial value.  You’d think scientists would be the most curious about this, but apparently they’ve pretty much decided it’s just an unusual specimen of a jellynose fish.

Tags: Brazil, jellynose fish, tadpole fish, Ateleopodidae, unusual animals, rare fish, deep-sea fish

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