4.9K views · 130 reactions | Video of a newly discovered species is now the world’s deepest known fish recorded at 8,143 m depth. The fish has a novel body form that has not been seen before. It stunned scientists because in other trenches, there is only one fish species at this depth – a snailfish; this fish is really different from any other deep-sea fish that scientists have ever seen. Video credit: SOI/HADES | Central Florida Aquarium Society - CFLAS.org | Facebook

These are the deepest fish ever filmed. Including one juvenile discovered at an underwater depth of 8,336m. They are an unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis and were discovered by The University of Western Australia at the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan. | New Scientist