World's smallest fish: a carp from Indonesia
The world's smallest fish has been located living in an acidic peat swamp on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
It has been termed the "Paedocypris progenetica" and is a member of the carp family. Despite being only .31 inches (7.9 millimeters), the males have "exceptionally large muscles" and "enlarged pelvic fins". Boffins speculate these are used for the things you don't want to think about as you're drinking water.
As the picture shows, or doesn't show, it has a transparent body. We're sure there's a fish in that container, because the AP says there is. Moreover, its head is unprotected by a skeleton.
Fishologists Maurice Kottelat (Switzerland; posing above) and Tan Heok Hui (Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore) made the discovery together with Kai-Erik Witte (Max Planck Institute in Germany) and local experts.
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