![]() While hagfish are undisputedly ugly, they are popular amongst biologists as the only extant animal with a skull but no vertebrae. Worse still, they look like dreadful aliens and have disgusting feeding habits, burying themselves in carcasses and eating them inside out. They are slime-producing tubular fish with paddle-shaped tails and pink-grey naked skin that covers their body like a loose sock. Hagfish may look like eels, but members of this class are uglier than eels. Little wonder its scientific name is coined from the Greek words chaulios (open-mouthed) and odous (teeth). The fish is everything that describes a predator, from being undoubtedly scary to having the largest teeth relative to its head size. While the Sloane’s viperfish is a bioluminescent creature, it does not translate to being attractive. Unlike the red-lipped batfish secluded in Ecuador and Peru, the Sloane’s Viperfish occupies almost all marine waters in the temperate and tropical oceans, living between depths of 1,000 and 2,000 meters. Scientific Name: Chauliodus sloani (c) Brian Suda Monkfish are tasty, delicious menus in high-end restaurants despite their unappealing looks. These fishes can change their body color to match their surroundings, helping them prey on other species. However, these fishes are also known as sea devils due to their horrific looks, with large, depressed heads, small eyes, fang-like teeth, and mottled skin that makes the rest of the body appear like an appendage. The North Sea and North Atlantic fishermen call fishes from the genus Lophius “Monkfish.” However, its unpopularity results from a small geographical range, occurring in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador and the outskirts of Peru, where they prefer to walk on the ocean floor than swim. The ugly fish is not a prominent aquatic figure as you may expect. Scientists suggest that red-lipped batfishes use their large, bright-colored lips to attract mates. The red-lipped batfish even looks uglier with a ‘beard,’ ‘mustache,’ ‘horn’ on its forehead, a large ‘nose,’ and an odd-shaped body. They are bony fishes with huge heads and crescent-shaped mouths, usually dark gray to dark brown.Īngler fishes are famed for their fleshy piece of dorsal fins that extends over their mouth and illuminates to attract prey.ĭespite being one of the ugliest fish species, they are not the kind of fish you would love to encounter as their plenty sharp, translucent teeth and large size, reaching 4.3 feet long, are enough to scare you. It isn’t very pleasant to say that none of the 200+ angler fish species is easy on the eye, but we have to say it still. Scientific Name: Linophrynidae The Angler Fish looks better in water in water. Researchers drawing similarities between the frilled shark and living fossils tells what you need to know about this fish. ![]() Like the big, bad, ugly wolf, the frilled shark is also large and fearsome, surpassing six feet in length with about 300 curved, needle-like teeth. It inhabits marine waters like other shark species, occupying the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, where its color, length, and rear fin placement distinguish it from other sharks. The frilled shark is an example of what happens when evolution does not give a creature the aesthetic pleasure humans are used to. Scientific Name: Chlamydoselachus anguineus However, it looks less ugly in its natural habitat than out of water. The blobfish lives in a high-pressure environment between 600 and 1,200 meters deep ocean. The fish’s name comes from its lifetime routine of gently bobbing around the deep sea thanks to its gelatinous appearance aiding its buoyancy. The smooth-head fish is a foot-long and pink, with soft bones and few muscles. It won the poll to emerge as a mascot for its attractiveness, and such a proposition is not far from right. The public voted for the blobfish via a poll as the Ugly Animal Preservation Society mascot in 2013. The most attractive ones often hit the posters however, the blobfish has made history as an unlikely poster creature. Scientific Name: Psychrolutes marcidus (c) James Joel Related Posts: The Ugliest Fish in the World’s Oceans & Seas 1.
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