"Living Fossils" Exhibits specimens of deep-sea fish Lafka Wakayama January 29, 16:02

A specimen of the deep-sea fish "Rabuka", also known as "living fossils" whose ecology is hardly elucidated, is exhibited at a museum in Hainan, Wakayama Prefecture.

"Rabuka" is a kind of shark that inhabits the deep sea.

A sample of "Rabuka" exhibited at the Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Nature in Hainan City was caught offshore Taiji-cho on 16th of this month.

It is rare to be captured alive, so the aquarium in Kushimoto was open to the public, but died on the 17th the next day, so it was sampled after the Prefectural Museum of Nature performed measurements and dissections etc. That is. The specimen "Rabuka" is a male approximately 1 meter and 30 cm long.

Visitors looked at the appearance of rare deep-sea fish, also known as "living fossils".

A woman who visited the museum said, "It was smaller than I expected. I feel romantic when I thought that this was actually in the deep sea."

Kentaro Hirashima, director of the Prefectural Museum of Natural Science, said, "I hope that this one will trigger a momentum in research."

Species of "Rabuka" will be on display until February 24.