Viper fish. (Chauliodus Sloani).
This terrifying looking sea creature lives in the oceans of the whole world and the sea in tropical or temperate waters including the western Mediterranean, which has it in an omnipresent place, specifically in the bathypelagic zone where there is no plant life. sunlight arrives, where everything is darkness, between 9,000 feet (2,743.3 meters) and 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) deep where food is scarce.
When the night comes, it goes vertically to shallower waters between 2,000 feet (609.6 meters) and 1,500 feet (457.2 meters), where there is more abundance of food.
It is endowed with various unusual features very striking.
For example; let's talk about its very long dorsal fin with a bioluminescent organ (photophore) at its upper end that when tilting it forward, it brings it close to its head, shaking it and making it twinkle to attract the prey and capture it with its long and sharp teeth, the lower teeth They surpass their face having greater length than the superior ones.
Another unusual feature of this fish is that along the inside of its belly is also composed of bioluminescent organs (photophores) that from above appears to be light from the surface and camouflaged from predators or attract female of the same species.
It feeds on crustaceans, smaller fish and also plankton. Its predators are usually sharks and different species of dolphins.
It is also known that his first front vertebra works as a shock absorber and makes it easier for him to move his head from top to bottom.
This incredible but scary fish can go days without eating since its basal metabolic rate is low and does not need much food.
Scientists believe that the snake fish can live from 15 to 30 years of age
The way in which this species reproduces is unknown since it spends the majority of the time in the depths of the ocean and the possibilities of studying them are scarce, it is supposed that the spawning (laying of eggs) that makes the female of this species is external to then be fertilized in the water.
They are likely to spawn (egg laying) throughout the year but more larvae have been shown between the months of January and March, these larvae, when they hatch, measure approximately 6 millimeters and since then they have been worthwhile until they reach maturity. .
What is terrifying about the viper fish is missing in size, they can measure 10 to 40 centimeters in length as adults.