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Fish fight breaks out over tiny catch

Contenders line up to net credit for smallest vertebrate.

You might be more used to arguments about who has caught the biggest fish. But this week a squabble has broken out among zoologists, each of whom is claiming to have found the smallest.

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Posted by Michael Hopkin on January 31, 2006 05:58 PM |

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Bill Watson and I published a paper in 2004, cited by the authors, which describes undoubtedly the world's lightest vertebrate, Schindleria brevipinguis, the stout infantfish. I believe most people will agree that the smallest is the organism with the least mass (weight).

Posted by: H.J. Walker, Jr. | February 2, 2006 01:41 AM

I think the world's smallest fish is found in sumatra which 7.9mm long it is found in year 2006. You can see the news here http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/jan/news_7501.html

Regards,
James Burt
http://www.nhse.org

Posted by: James Burt | December 29, 2007 09:21 PM

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