Worlds smallest fish found

[Wildcard]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060125/ap_on_sc/indonesia_tiny_fish

Of course the media screwed this up too. According to them 1/3 of an inch is smaller than 1/10 of a millimeter. Never trust teh media to get anything straight but it's a cool tiny fish!

 

[aabond]

I guess you learn something new everyday, 1/3 of an inch is smaller than 1/10 of a millimeter

 

[Green_Manelishi]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060125/ap_on_sc/indonesia_tiny_fish

Of course the media screwed this up too. According to them 1/3 of an inch is smaller than 1/10 of a millimeter. Never trust teh media to get anything straight but it's a cool tiny fish!

So how do you even see a fish that's 1/10 of 1 mm long? Using a micro-scope?

 

[Wildcard]

Even if it was 1/10 of a centameter, 1mm, it still would be smaller. Ya gotta wonder about these people sometimes. I wonder what the real size is?

 

[H2Andy]

hey guys... i read the article... they say that the newly discovered fish
is less than 1/3 of an inch long, and that the previous "smaller" fish was only
1/10th of a millimeter longer

i.e. 1/10th of a millimeter longer than 1/3 of an inch


Mature females grow to less than a third of an inch long.

...

The previous record for world's smallest fish, according to the Natural History Museum, was held by a species of Indo-Pacific goby one-tenth of a millimeter longer.

why they'd go and mix metric with imperial? beats me...

 

[archman]

why they'd go and mix metric with imperial? beats me...

Probably because scientists report in metric, but since most americans don't understand metric, the article writers did some "translating".

 

[Jason Ooi]

WOW smaller worlds smallest fish........macro stuff.....
Thank you for sharing....

Cheer
Jason

 

[Wildcard]

I guess I should slow down when skimming articles. My bad. Still! Never believe them.
It has no skull! Now thats weird....

 

[Scuba]

Don't take this wrong folks, but it would be nice if SB's reporters got the story right. I guess it goes with the territory. Reporting and facts, that is - don't mix together very well.

According to the article: The world's smallest known fish grows to less than 1/3 of an inch long.

The previous record for world's smallest fish, according to the Natural History Museum, was held by a species of Indo-Pacific goby one-tenth of a millimeter longer.

According to an older report by the BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3920183.stm the worlds smallest fish circa 2004 was the stout infantfish at about 7mm, slightly over 1/4 inch. Lightest in weight too. It would take about 500,000 fish to weight one pound. No worries about overfishing to feed a hungry world, only six are known to exist.

So how big is this newly discovered small fish?

Awaiting new reports.

 

[partridge]

I guess the Philippines is out of the Guiness book again.

Smallest Freshwater Fish
The smallest freshwater fish is the pygmy goby (Pandaka pygmaea), a colorless and nearly see-through species which swims in the streams of Luzon in the Philippines. Males are 7.5 - 9.9-mm (0.28 - 0.38-in) long and weigh 4 - 5 mg (0.00014 - 0.00018 oz).