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What sets pearlfish apart is their choice of home. Instead of hiding among seagrasses or rocky crevices they seek shelter inside the anuses of sea cucumbers. This peculiar behavior is both fascinating and a little humorous.

 

Pearlfish Geographical Range and Habitats There are about thirty (30) known species of pearlfishes and most of them live in tropical and subtropical seas. They thrive best in shallow reefs and oceanic shelves such as those in the Atlantic Indian and Pacific Oceans.

 

Pearlfish are marine fish in the Carapidae family of ray-finned fishes. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic Indian and Pacific Oceans at depths to 2 000 m (6 600 ft) along oceanic shelves and slopes.

 

Pearlfish any of about 32 species of slim eel-shaped marine fishes of the family Carapidae noted for living in the bodies of sea cucumbers pearl oysters starfishes and other invertebrates.

 

Pearlfish don't have scales or any way of protecting themselves so instead they have to find a safe hideaway. But rather than sheltering in a seagrass meadow or hiding in the crevices of a rock ...

 

Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic Indian and Pacific Oceans at depths to 2 000 m (6 600 ft) along oceanic shelves and slopes.