What type of fish is the rarest?

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Publiation data: 27.03.2026 08:04
What type of fish is the rarest?

It is likely that it has not yet been discovered.

 

In recent decades, more than 10,000 new species of fish have been described. These are usually rare species; otherwise, they would have been discovered earlier. The population of many of them remains insufficiently studied.

For example, deep-sea fish of the genera Bathymicrops and Bathytyphlops are represented in zoological collections by only a few specimens.

The catfish Hypancistrus phantasma (in the photo) is known only from a few specimens caught by participants of the Swedish expedition in the South American river Rio Negro in 1924.

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