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Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheenContact: Sandra Hines
shines@u.washington.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen
| Quote: | A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish collection and a fish and wildlife biologist with more than 20 years of sampling fish in Puget Sound.
"Ratfish usually hang out in places with soft, muddy bottoms," says Jon Reum, the aquatic and fishery sciences doctoral student who found the albino ratfish during a UW research project. "The typical ratfish in Puget Sound is brown or black with a smattering of white spots so it blends in with the sediments."
This fish was almost pure white with a crystalline layer near the surface of its skin that gave it a silvery sheen. |
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/uow-rar092407.php
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