Extremely rare footage of fish living at a record depth of 6,100m under the sea floor

Camera traps have captured several fish species that have adapted to a record depth of more than 6,100 meters on the ocean floor in waters off Australia.

Recently, biologists from the Minderoo deep-sea research center at the University of Western Australia said they had recorded a number of fish species adapted to a record depth of 6,177m above sea level in the area. Diamantina fault in the southeastern Indian Ocean. It is known that this is the record for recording fish living at the greatest depth ever off the coast of Australia.

According to biologists, they used camera traps attached to a rover to capture the creatures. Image from the recorded camera shows, some Ophidiidae fish are attracted by the lure.

They belong to the order of mink fish, which includes many species of deep-sea fish. Among them is the species living at the largest depth of about 8,370m ever known in the Puerto Rico Trench. This species usually has a slender body with a small head, smooth scales.

 Creatures living at a depth of more than 6,100m on the ocean floor in the waters off Australia have just been captured by camera traps

This was followed by the appearance of two smaller fish of light blue color. They may be new, undescribed species in the order of blind fish. In addition, the camera trap also caught some other stunning deep-sea creatures.

 Creatures shaped like shrimp are also attracted to the camera trap

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the greatest depth ever caught by a living fish was 7,966m in the Marian Trench in 2014. This is the world's deepest oceanic trench in the western Pacific Ocean.

 The snailfish lives at a record depth of nearly 8,000 meters in the Marian Trench in the western Pacific Ocean

It is a snail fish called Pseudoliparis swirei. They have a rather fancy appearance, the body is so transparent that the internal organs can be seen from the outside, with a length of nearly 30cm, a weight of about 160g.

Living at this record depth, snailfish have evolved to adapt to the harsh environment. They have no scales, no large teeth, and are not bioluminescent. Their bodies looked so soft that they were compared to tissue paper being dragged underwater.

Sharing with the Sydney Morning Herald, the team said they used a 30 Australian dollar trap attached to a research instrument worth up to 100,000 Australian dollars to catch the two individuals mentioned above. This is considered a new species to the scientific community.