#dragonfishes — Public Fediverse posts
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#NewSpecies of #fish from #Antarctica highlights its threatened ecosystem https://phys.org/news/2024-08-species-antarctic-dragonfish-highlights-threatened.html
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of #Antarctic #dragonfish from the western Antarctic Peninsula https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5501.2.3
"a population of #dragonfishes may have become isolated within deep trenches under #glaciers, surviving on food pushed in by the moving ice. Once the glaciers retreated, this subpopulation had become distinct enough to be reproductively incompatible with Akarotaxis nudiceps"
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When searching for light and a mate in the deep, dark sea, male #dragonfish grow larger eyes https://phys.org/news/2024-07-deep-dark-sea-male-dragonfish.html
Sexually dimorphic eye size in #dragonfishes, a response to a bioluminescent signalling gap https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0165
Like many creatures that inhabit the dark #DeepSea, dragonfish survive thanks to numerous adaptations, including glowing #bioluminescence. But females are not quite as bright as males... male #fish have evolved larger eyes to find females who produce less light.