Variety of creatures living in the deep sea out of sunlight

Living organisms and sea creatures have different appearance due to differences in ecology, but deep-sea creatures also look very different from these. Perhaps it is a result optimized to live in the deep sea where the light of day does not reach, but it is grotesque and humorous in many ways and I feel that it is different world from the deep sea I will let you.

Census of Marine Life (CoML), an organization conducting surveys of marine organisms, introduced a lot of pictures of deep-sea creatures and I will introduce them.

Details are as below.
It lives in the depth of 2000 m to 2500 mYabane familyA kind of. Only five cases were caught so far, it is the first observation in the Mid Atlantic Ocean.

Photo by David Shale.

It is an appearance that you do not know whether it is a fish or an insect, but this is also a type of crustacean.

Photo by Büntzow / Corgosinho

Colorful coral reef per 1000 m depth.


I found it in the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of 2750 mYumenamako.

Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

It seems that it is also called "Dumbo Octopus" Grimpoteuthis discoveri. It may be like a dumbbo with its head looking like an ear indeed.

Photo by Mike Vecchione.

Here is a dumboish octopus, Cirrothauma magna.

Photo by Savid Shale.


Photo by Mike Vecchione.

From its appearance, it is also called "angel of drift ice" Clione.

Photo by Kevin Raskoff, ArCOD.

Ibarakurazashi (Christmas tree worm). Natural blueness is spooky.

Photo by John Huisman, Murdoch University, 2008.

A kind of Thaumastochelopsis. A new species discovered in 2008 with a blind lobster.

Photo by Tin-Yam Chan, CoMarge.

Sokodara. Edible with fish caught in Suruga Bay.

Photo by MAR-ECO.

Antarctic Ice Fish

Photo by J. Gutt, Alfred-Wegener Institute, 2007.

Umitsuka.

Photo by Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum, 2008.

The 2009 survey was conducted up to the water depth of 5000 m using the marine research robot "Nereus", but the mission was interrupted due to Hurricane Ida that hit Latin America.

Photo by Chris German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.