The intriguing image of the “five-headed monster” posted by a marine life profile on TikTok gained social media fame for its resemblance to the Demogorgon, a fictional creature from the “Stranger Things” series.
The short 15-second video with no subtitles shows the animal with tiny fangs and tails biting a crab leg. (26) The image released on Tuesday received more than 10 million views and closed comments due to the volume of views received.
“The ocean is monster soup, I can’t convince myself otherwise,” said one netizens. Another said, “Anyone else running through the comments to find the only person who knows what these things are? Oh my god.”
To satisfy the curious. Biologist Polli Padilla also used TikTok to explain that the “monsters” seen in the photo are actually a group of fish with the scientific name “Monster”. Odontamlyopus lacepedii.
“These are fish. They are very ugly fish, gobies. The scientific name of this group is ‘Amblyopia‘. There are 25 species in this group,” he said. padilla stated that the species is usually seen in ocean regions. Indo-Pacificin Africa, Asia and Australia.
The “natural habitat” of these fish is in muddy waters. “They have small eyes, and if you look at some photos of these groups, you’ll see that they don’t have eyes or they have very small eyes,” he said.
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According to him, animals of the species are carnivores and feed on small mollusks or other fish smaller than themselves.
source: Noticias
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