Meet a deep-sea fish: Rattail or Grenadier

A Coryphaenoides species from the Macrouridae. A very common deep-sea scavenger

[grasshopperpotato]

Kind of debating whether I should show my 4 year-old sister this video 😹 I have a poster of that labels the entire ocean system along with a few of its inhabitants. The grenadier fish is located in the abyssopelagic along with the dumbo octopus. She loves looking at these two and knows them by name... but does she reaaaally know them unless she sees them for real (rather than drawings)? Should the truth be revealed at the risk of traumatizing her? I'm sure it'll be fine though, just don't zoom into the face!

But this is also my first time seeing the grenadier fish for real! In the poster I have, the pelvic fins look a lot bigger and resembles the dorsal fin. I only see the two filaments you pointed out in this video. Perhaps they're very retracted in, or I'm blind. I'm not familiar at observing fishes though😹