Wednesday, January 25, 2006

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists find 'smallest fish'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists find 'smallest fish': "Scientists find 'smallest fish'
By Roland Pease
BBC science correspondent


The world's smallest known fish can measure as little as 7.9mm

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Researchers have found the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Individuals of the Paedocypris genus can be just 7.9mm long at maturity, scientists write in a journal published by the UK's Royal Society."

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