Blobfish Research Paper

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Blobfish The Blobfish’s scientific name is the Psychrolutes P. Marcidus (Si - chro - lus P. Mar - si - dus ) , but I like to call blobfish just blob. The Psychrolutes P. Marcidus can grow up to 12in (30.5cm) long and live about 130 years. They are endangered and there are only about 420 left in the world. They live off the coast of Australia , living in deep - high pressure waters, in around 2,000 - 4,000 feet under the waves. Blobfish are invertebrate with no muscle and are blob-like so underwater they can survive under the high pressure water. If you were under all the water pressure down there, the blobfish would look like real fish. Since the blobfish has no muscle they keep their mouths open and eat anything that floats into their mouth, so if there is trash floating around in the water they will die from eating trash. Thankfully the blobfish has no predators, but they have acid-like skin. Since the blobfish isn’t very popular yet, most fisherman are unaware of the fact that blobfish are in-edible. Scientists don’t really know what Blobfish eat but we …show more content…

When you take fish with swim bladders out of their natural habitats that air sac probably will expand when they rise. After the expansion of their air sac, there is a chance that everything on the inside comes out of their mouth , killing them. The blobfish doesn’t have a swim bladder, so the blobfish’s stomach gets to stay inside its body. The blobfish is an invertebrate and also has know muscle so in our atmosphere it’s saggy and droopy . But without this body, down at depth, it’d be dead. The fish that live in deep water don’t have gas-filled cavities like swim bladders that would collapse under the extreme pressure. Super-deep water fish often have minimal skeletons and jelly like flesh, because the only way to survive in the extreme pressure of deep water is to have water as your structural

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