Photo credit: David Jara Boguñá
Photographer David Jara Boguñá captured a rarely seen black seadevil anglerfish swimming near the surface off the coast of Tenerife, Spain last week. What makes this so odd is that these creatures are typically found at depths of 650 to 6,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, inhabiting the deep sea region known as the bathypelagic zone or “midnight zone”.
When observed up close, black seadevils are characterized by a gelatinous, mostly scaleless, globose body, paired with a large head, as well as lots of menacingly large, sharp, glassy, fang-like teeth that line the jaws of a cavernous, oblique mouth. In its natural midnight zone habitat, the creature actually glows, and this bioluminescence is produced by symbiotic bacteria. Unfortunately, the black seadevil in this video only managed to live for a few hours after the footage was captured.
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It was like a dream come true. When I was a kid, I had a book with some deep-sea creatures, and I loved the illustrations. They were crazy to me. The animals didn’t look real,” said David Jara Bogunyà, a marine wildlife photographer.
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