Unknown fish found in Brazil

This was an interesting story. I was just a little concerned about the credibility of the story when it said the fish was dead. What exactly does the fish look like in life, is it really scaleless in life?

As weird as this fish is I think the fish that uses mirrors like a reflecting telescope to enhance its vision might be weirder.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5469077.ece

This allegedly world's smallest fish is pretty weird also, it supposedly lives in tea colored water that has a ph of 3.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/jan/news_7501.html

And then the moray eel might be well known but it's pretty weird also. It has an "Alien" like jaw arrangement. It grabs the prey with the outer jaws and then it uses its inner jaws into its mouth. It uses this arrangement instead of the big sucking mechanism used by many fish to ingest their prey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_eel

See the image part way down the page of the moray eel inner and outer jaws.

The anglerfish is way up their in the weird department with its parasitic male strategy. The male attaches itself to the females body permanently. The attached male can be even smaller than the world's smallest fish mentioned above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photocorynus_spiniceps
 
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fallout said:
http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/bizarre-new-fish.html

I´ve read it from a lot of other sources as well, unfortunately all in portuguese. It seems to be for real, either a mutated individual, or an unknown species. Looking forward to see what they find out.
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Googling from comments in the Nat.Geo story, it seems it is probably not an unknown species, but perhaps a newly discovered subspecies of Jellynose Fish.

ETA: Reading the Nat.Geo article further, that would seem to be initially the more scientific conclusion.
 
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