Bathysphaera intacta

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Bathysphaera intacta was the name given by ichthyologist William Beebe to a deep-sea fish species that he claims to have observedin 1932 from his deep-sea sphere ( bathysphere ) at a depth of 2100 feet in the northern Atlantic near Bermuda . The animals have never been seen since these sightings. Beebe provided an initial description ,but there is no type specimen and the existence of the animal is questioned.

The fish is said to have been six feet long and to have had a row of glowing blue organs on the side . It is also said to have two tentacles , each ending in two luminous organs, one of which is said to have glowed blue and the other red.

Beebe assigned the species to the subfamily Melanostomiinae within the baleen dragon fish (Stomiidae). With a length of six feet (about 1.8 meters) the fish would be the largest species of the Melanostomiinae and five times as long as Echiostoma barbatum , which can reach a length of 36 cm and is the longest species documented by type specimens.

literature

  • George M. Eberhart: Mysterious Creatures. A Guide to Cryptozoology. Verlag ABC-CLIO Ltd., Santa Barbara CA 2002, ISBN 1-57607-283-5 , p. 34 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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