World Smallest Fish: stout infantfish 7mm long only!

The minuscule fish, called a stout infantfish, is only about 7mm (just over a quarter of an inch) long.
It lives around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and has snatched the “world’s smallest vertebrate” title from the 1cm-long dwarf goby fish.
The infantfish, which is no longer than the width of a pencil, is described in the Records of the Australian Museum.
Source: BBC News
Wow, that’s a tiny fish indeed. Cool… This smallest fish belongs to genus Paedocypris. It can live in an acidic water which was thought to be impossible for any living thing previously. It can also sustain extreme drought. Paedocypris has a unique feature; it doesn’t have cranium or skull to cover its brain.
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It lives around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and has snatched the “world’s smallest vertebrate” title from the 1cm-long dwarf goby fish. 























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