What is the Worlds Smallest Fish?
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the Paedocypris progenetica is so tiny!
The smallest fish in the world is only 7. 9 mm in length. It is the female Paedocypris progenetica. It lives in dark swamp waters.
The Paedocypris Progenetica is the smallest fish and it has also a wierd name.
Researchers have found one of the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
It is smaller than all your fingers and nails!
Fins help fish swim. There are an estimated 28,000 different fish species in the world. There are 1,200 species of fish that are venomous.
There are still some that have not been discovered yet. It was very hard for all of the scientists to find such a small fish in such a big swamp. They had to look everywhere. The Paedocypris Progenetica
has a transparent body and its head does not have a skeleton. This fish can grow up to the size of a large mosquito.