#snipe eels

[anguilliforme]

Have you ever seen an eel irl? Don't they have funny little teeth?

my eel brain actually started with me volunteering to assist on an eel feed at the pūkaha wildlife centre. knee-deep in large, writhing beasts trying to get at the food in my hands, i fell in love.

you're right, the longfin eels teeth are so small! you've got to look really close because it kinda looks like it's just a rough texture:

but that isn't the only type of eel teeth! Viper eels have a pretty iconic set of teeth

they feed on slippery critters so need some good grippers, while a moray like the snowflake eel which eats more crustaceans will have flatter teeth for crushing:

snipe eels have backwards facing teeth! you might have to squint to see these because theyre so tiny, but they function similar to a pythons- once you get in it'll be incredibly damaging to get out!

[antiqueanimals]

The Quizzer Book of Knowledge: Nature. Written and edited by George Beal. 1978.

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[marinememes]

Snipe eel is the perfect name for that thing

[pillarsalt]

[fish-daily]

Hello!!! If you're looking for more fish suggestions, how about a snipe eel? (Nature's shoelace)

fish 310 - snipe eel

[cryptidwithacopiccollection]

Could I politely ask for Ron elite for the mermay thing pretty please?

One Ron Deelite for you

[cheetahtrout]

I missed Eel day like an absolute doofus! So this sundayfishsketch I make up for it. Have these two very underappreciated anguilliformes: Neocyema erythrosoma (orange) Cyema atrum (green) the bobtail snipe eels

[marshland-parlour-cat]

The pixel artist Neorice (https://x.com/neoriceisgood) has made a huge collection of marine life. I emailed him a while back asking if I could upload some of my favourites to my tumblr blog (crediting him of course), and he said I could.

[dougdimmadodo]

Slender Snipe Eel (Nemichthys scolopaceus)

Family: Snipe Eel Family (Nemichthyidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

Named for its elongated jaws that resemble the beak of a snipe, the Slender Snipe Eel is an illusive and poorly understood fish, with most of what is known about it coming from a handful of brief encounters with live individuals (although the remains of this species are frequently found in the stomachs of larger fish caught by fishers.) Found in non-polar waters worldwide, it inhabits the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zone (at depths of 200-4,000m/656-13123ft) and feeds on swimming crustaceans which it catches using a series of tiny teeth that line its long, curved jaws. Although adults of this species may grow to be up to 1.3 meters (4ft) long, their extremely slender body means that they weigh less than 100 grams (3.5 ounces), with their thin, lightweight bodies possibly being an adaptation that makes them harder for prey and predators such as tunas (some species of which may dive to great depths to hunt snipe eels) to detect in the darkness of their deepwater home. Slender Snipe Eels are believed to reproduce through broadcast spawning (meaning they release gametes freely into the water without finding a mate, with the gametes meeting in the water) and die after mating; their larvae, bizarrely, begin their lives with broad, leaf-shaped bodies and “slim down” as they age. The spine of a Slender Snipe Eel contains as many as 750 vertebrae, which vastly surpasses the number seen in any other vertebrate (for reference, humans have just 33 and even Blue Whales, the longest vertebrates, have at most 65.)

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/67619-Nemichthys-scolopaceus

[haunternova]

:V

[nyxthedragon225]

obvious disclaimer: these are not all the deep sea fish in the world, just the ones i personally think would be cool. I am biased.

pictures below. warning, some of these are some disturbing and ugly mfs /aff

coelacanth

dragonfish

sperm whale

firefly squid

nautilus

anglerfish

snipe eel

vampire squid

sixgill shark

plus some more if u want!

[canidaedreams64]

hal birthclod if he was an eel

[pa-pa-plasma]

this ones for the bitches who keep trying to shoot Maws & Cohozuna UwU

[low-po1y-princess]

There needs to be a chimaera pokemon that's not gorabyss

[patchyworx]

Sometimes i wonder why i feel like im stuck in an echo chamber with one sided windows then i remember my stuff never gets reblogged except that FUCKING SNIPE EEL POST

[chaoyte]

thinking about how much i dislike realistic pokemon art again bc. almost every fucking time someone does something stupid like make gorebyss a dolphin