Deepsea fishes

The "Oceanium" at the Blijdorp ZOO, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

All the models are 0.5 metres long. (=larger than lifesize.)

1999

± 3 weeks per fish.

addervis

bijlvis

bijlvis

hengelvis

hengelvis

hengelvis

scholveraal

scholveraal

zwarte zwelger

addertandvis

These models are several times bigger than the real animals. Some of the original animals, or there relatives, are not bigger than 20 mm. The main sorce of information was the biological material at the national Natural History Museum "NATURALIS" in Leiden. The pictures given to me by the Blijdorp ZOO where supplemented by collected pictures from several magazines
Encyclopaedia of fishes, AP natural world,
Wereld onder water, Norbert Wu,
diepzee vissen, parool/life.

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