Pearlfish (Carapidae)

[the_cat_keeper]

Hi, there...

I recently found that that there is a small, transparent, eel-like fish that lives in certain species of cucumber. I googled and found a lot of articles about it but what I really would like to know is what one looks like. Anyone has seen one or have a photograph of one?

Thanks...

 

[Vie]

Anyone has seen one or have a photograph of one?

Here’s a bad scan of a photo of a Silver pearlfish Carapus homei taken by Hans-Michael Hackenberg (I think...) that appears on page 31 of Helmut Debelius’s Red Sea Reef Guide (Circle Publishing, Richmond (England), 2003).

 

[the_cat_keeper]

thanks... I just couldn't imagine what a fish that live in the body cavities of a sea cucumber looks like.