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The Peculiar Life of Pearlfish - DAN World

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TO FIND THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF A LARVAL PEARLFISH in the wild, I had to search back to the early 1980s annals of blackwater diving and Christopher Newbert’s account of drifting 40 feet down a lighted downline tethered to a dinghy bobbing on a night sea somewhere off the Kona, Hawaiʻi, coast.

This image showing the unusual anterior location of the alimentary canal, including the anus, of an unknown species of larval pearlfish was photographed off Kona, Hawai‘i. This larval Atlantic pearlfish (Carapus bermudensis) is estimated to be 8 to 10 inches long. NED AND ANNA DELOACH TO FIND THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF A LARVAL PEARLFISH in the wild, I had to search back to the early 1980s annals of blackwater diving and Christopher Newbert’s account of drifting 40 feet (12 meters) down a lighted downline tethered to a dinghy bobbing on a night sea somewhere off the Kona, Hawaiʻi, coast. The sto

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