STRANGE DEEP SEA FISH
A SPECIMEN IDENTIFIED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A strange fish found on the beach at Paraparaumu and brought to the Dominion Museum, proves to be of the genus trachipterus, species traehypterus. It is an extraordinary.looking fish measuring I’B inches in length and four or five inches in width, i averages only l-Bin. in thickness and at the tail is much thinner than that. It is richly silvered with a thick coating of what looks like silver paint, consisting of thousands of crystalline prisms. It seems to be an established fish which is a true ribbon fish and lives at a great ocean depth. It has a protractible mouth which extends more than an inch like a bellows, perhaps to enable it to grasp its sea prey. While fresh the brilliant silver covering is relieved by a reddish lateral stripe, and the tail and fins are a vivid scarlet. Black spots the size of a florin diversify the back.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1926, Page 9
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