Slice bellies is the name of the fish that has discovered a deep sea Explorer, Thomas Linley, with a special U-boat in the Atacama trench in front of the Chilean coast. They are available in different colors: pink, blue, and purple.
Up to about 7500 meters of the deep-sea Explorer Thomas Linley of Newcastle University had to be unmanned special U-boat off the coast of Chile and Peru, down, then he got up to then unknown fish in front of the camera lens. There are three new types, all of which belong to the disc bellies (Lipanidae).
In comparison to many other deep-sea fish, which are equipped with large eyes, long teeth or light-emitting organs, the newly discovered sea creatures quite inconspicuous: up to a maximum of a 30-cm-long slice bellies are small, slimy, and largely transparent. On the basis of the respective color, the researchers speak of bellies for the time being, pink, blue, and violet glass.
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At the top of the food chain
“Out of the reach of other fish they are enemies of free of competitors and predators,” said Linley. “The video footage clearly show that since the bottom of many vertebrate live prey animals, and the disc bellies are at the top of the food chain. You seem to be pretty active and well-fed.”
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Penetrating into unknown Depths
A fish could catch the researchers in a trap and bring to the surface. The hardest structures in the body of the slimy fish are, therefore, the teeth and the bones of the inner ear.
A total of 40 scientists from 17 countries, had traveled with the Expedition, the waters above the more than 8000 meters deep from the Atacama trench. The Region is less explored than the surface of our moon. Along the 6000-kilometre-long trench, the scientists dozens of times had their cameras equipped U-boats to the sea bottom. (dpa/fs,af)
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