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Asked by dondon1 to Kate, Juan on 13 Mar 2014.
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Juan Carlos Lopez-Baez answered on 13 Mar 2014:
Hehe, good question.
I am not a marine biologist (even though I work with fish), so I have had to look this one up. The smallest fish is called Paedocypris progenetica (yes, very scientific name) and it is only 7.9 mm long (look at your ruler and see how small it is!). It was discovered not very long ago in swamps in Sumatra (an Indonesian island in Asia) and apart from having a very small size it is also extraordinary because it lives in very acidic water. In fact the water that it lives in is 100 times more acidic than rain water!
It stole the title from the Indo Pacific goby, which used to be the smallest fish at 8 mm long, which is small, but just not small enough 🙂
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Comments
dondon1 commented on :
7.9mm long!
izzy2014 commented on :
what 7.9
dan33 commented on :
wow thats small
dondon1 commented on :
very small fish
haron338 commented on :
the tinniest fish i’ve seen is 10 mm long
izzy2014 commented on :
really what’s it called
dan33 commented on :
were was this fish
dondon1 commented on :
wow thats tiny
izzy2014 commented on :
Mine is a stickles back it is 7.5 mm long !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!!! Cool isn’t it ?
dondon1 commented on :
cool