They were voted the worlds ugliest animal in a 2013 online poll. Little is known about the blobfish, as they are elusive and live in such deep waters of the ocean. Their diet mainly consists of microscopic bacteria, and sea creatures, such as urchins, shellfish, mollusks, crabs, lobsters and sea pens.
This enables the blobfish to float above the sea floor, with their mouths open, sucking in any prey that floats or swims in their direction. The flesh of the blobfish is mainly a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water. They are members of the order Scorpaeniformes and family Psychrolutidae, which includes fatheads, fathead sculpins, and tadpole sculpins.īlobfish are pinkish grey in colour, and typically under 30cms (12 inches) in length, weighing around 20 pounds (9 kg). Sea urchins, shellfish, mollusks, crabs, lobsters, microscopic bacteria, sea pens. Coasts of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand It’s the most common picture you’ll see of a blobfish, which resides in an Australian museum. The stereotype is also mainly from one single popular photo of a dead blobfish, that has experienced significant deformatity due to decompression. They have been described as the ugliest fish in the world, however, this popular impression is due to decompression damage to their jelly-like bodies, when out of their natural high pressure environment.
The Blobfish (rather than ‘blob fish’) is a deep-sea fish which inhabits waters just above the sea bed at depths of 600 to 1,200 meters (2,000 to 3,900 feet), off the coasts of mainland Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania.
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