NatGeo :: Video — World’s Weirdest: Weird Killer of the Deep

I couldn't help using a picture from Finding Nemo.

Keeping to my love of strange animals, here’s a video featuring the unique angler fish. For the record, being a male angler fish, let alone being a member of the species in general, sounds like a horribly boring life.

Video — World’s Weirdest: Weird Killer of the Deep — National Geographic.

– Scientific Classification – 

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Actinopterygii
• Subclass: Neopterygii
• Infraclass: Teleostei
• Order: Lophiiformes

The rest of the classification gets a bit foggy. You can visit Wikipedia if you’re interested.

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Related articles

• The Curious Case of The Angler Fish (therealowner.com)