Author: Watson & Walker, 2004
FBname: Stout infantfish
Comments: Recently reported as the smallest vertebrate. Males average 7.7 millimeters long and the gravid female which is 8.4 millimeters weighed 1 milligram.  This pedomorphic species has a life span of only 2 months, has dispensed its fishy appendages such as teeth and scales, and has no pigment except in the eyes (Ref. 52508).  Specimens were collected in oblique plankton net tows (Ref. 52019).