This is one of my favorite animals!
Black swallower
Chiasmodon niger
Visual Appearance
A small black and brown fish.
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachiniformes
Family: Chiasmodontidae
Size
Height: 2 inches
Length: 6 to 9.8 inches
Environment
Where Found: They live in mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones.
Habitat: Pitch black every where.
Diet: medium bottom feeders.
Factoids
- It can swallow things up to ten times its size
- Its upper jaws are articulated with the skull at the front via the suspensorium.
- Its natural predator is angler fish.