What Is The Smallest Fish In The World? (ANSWER)
SMALLEST FISH IN THE WORLD – In this topic, we are going to learn and identify the smallest fish in the whole world, so far.
There are around 28,000 known species of fish in the world, among them were 27,000 bony fish, 970 sharks, rays, and chimeras, and 108 hagfish and lampreys.
So, among the 28 thousand fishes, which of them are the smallest, by far?
Answer
It is none other than stout infantfish (Schindleria brevipinguis).
It is a marine fish which is native to the Great Barrier Reef and Osprey Reef in Australia and the Coral Sea, respectively.
It has an average standard length of 6.5 milimeters or 0.36 inches.
It falls under the bony fish family Goblidae, which is one of the largest fish families which compromised of more than 2,000 species.
Scientific name
Schindleria is a genus of the bony fish family Goblidae. It is also the only genus of the Schindleridae family. It was named after German zoologist Otto Schindler, hence, they are called Schindler’s fishes
The species name brevipinguis, on the other hand, is derived from the two Latin terms brevis, which means “short” and pinguis. which means “stout”. This is in reference the the species’ shorter, thicker body.
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