Deepsea fishes
The "Oceanium" at the Blijdorp ZOO, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
All the models are 0.5 metres long. (=larger than lifesize.)
1999
± 3 weeks per fish.
addervis
bijlvis
bijlvis
hengelvis
hengelvis
hengelvis
scholveraal
scholveraal
zwarte zwelger
addertandvis
These models are several times bigger than the real animals. Some of the original animals, or there relatives, are not bigger than 20 mm. The main sorce of information was the biological material at the national Natural History Museum "NATURALIS" in Leiden. The pictures given to me by the Blijdorp ZOO where supplemented by collected pictures from several magazines
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