#zoarcidae

The ocean pout really has no reason to be upset! This species has evolved to survive the near-freezing waters off the Canadian coast by; they can survive the cold thanks to antifreeze chemicals in their blood, which prevents ice crystals from forming in the same way that antifreeze in a car keeps the engine from icing over.

Sad lil Ocean Pout (Marcrozoarces americanus)

This eelpout is the 28th species in the genus Pachycara :D

Pachycara caribbaeum is described from specimens collected from an active hydrothermal vent field at a depth of about 2300 m at the Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre of the Caribbean Sea. The new species is distinguished from its congeners mainly by its few pectoral fin rays, low vertebral counts, single, mediolateral branch of the lateral line system and presence of scales on the nape and cheeks.

Eelpouts of the genus Pachycara are found from upper bathyal to abyssal depths in all oceans except the Arctic   The 27th species was recently described from the southwestern Pacific.

Photo:   In situ observations of Pachycara caribbaeum with sparse Rimicaris hybisae and Lebbeus virentova shrimp from ROV by  Anderson, Somerville & Copley

Aggregation of gastropods (Tacita zenkevitchi) at 5329 meteres in the Peru-Chile Trench,  Pacific Ocean, also visible are a zoarcid (eelpout), a small liparid (Snailfish) and a large macrourid (grenadier).