Vinciguerria attenuata swim at mesopelagic on daytime and come to epipelagic on night time. They has many photophore on the ventral abdomen for
Counter-illumination. I am meeting that many times at Black water Dive
®. But, with respect to the Juvenile I can be counted on the fingers of one hand. I met that daytime at surface about 0.5m to recently and It's only 1m from the shore.
It seemed that little bit weakened.
That the sea temperature was 19 degrees.
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| Juvenile Vinciguerria attenuata(SL 18mm) |
Body is still semitransparent. Blackish chromatophore on forward gastric.
ORB is two pieces and doesn't have Suture-organ.
Original image size 5616x3743pix (Canon 5D Mark II)
