A big, beautiful, bebeh whalefish, drifting with the plankton over the nighttime abyss.
Body without the crazy “tapetail” is ~6cm

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Whalefish are often called tapetails when in their larval stage. This one’s tail was ~4x its 1.5” body length.

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