Japan recorded fish species

On November 16, the Oceanographic Museum in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, announced that a small fish of Coelacanthiformes, which was considered "chemical", was discovered and recorded. Live jelly '.

This is the first time in the world that scientists have recorded live fin fish.

The fish was discovered on October 6 at a depth of 161m in Manado Bay, North Sulawesi province of Indonesia.

The small bluefin has white spots, 31.5 cm long, which is the size of the newly born fry. Female finfish keep eggs growing in the abdomen and give birth to babies.

Handfin is a fish that has rarely changed since they appeared in the Devion Period about 360 million years ago and are considered extinct in the late Cretaceous period, about 80 million years ago.

Before 1938, when an individual finfish was discovered in the Comoros Islands, South Indian Ocean, this fish was only known through fossilized specimens.

In 1997, an individual fish was photographed at a fish market in the city of Mindanao in North Sulawesi province and a live fish was captured a year later.

The Fukushima Institute has partnered with the Ocean Research Center of the Indonesian Institute of Science and Sam Ratulangi University's Department of Fisheries and Oceanography to use a camera-mounted robot to explore the field since 2005.

Fukushima Institute said it will continue to expand the scope of exploration to find out the little-known life of this 'living fossil'.