Scary fisherman. The creepiest creatures caught by fishermen (15 photos)
Photos of truly frightening monsters that were caught by fishermen. Even the mere realization that such things can live under the surface of the water creepy creatures, can instill real fear. Next you can see 15 photographs of strange sea creatures, as well as the most terrible sea inhabitants.
The most terrible sea creatures caught by fishermen photo
This creature was caught by fisherman Roman Fedortsov, who works on a fishing trawler in the North-West region of Russia. According to some assumptions, this is a representative of chimera cartilaginous fish. It looks like a truly unearthly and frightening creature.
This creature with one eye was caught by Mexican fisherman Enrique Lucero Leon. Here is a shark that, as a result of a mutation, received only one eye. Furthermore, the shark is not only a cyclops, but also an albino.
This giant eye was discovered in 2012 on Pompano Beach in Florida. Researchers were never able to figure out who it could belong to. It was originally assumed that the eye belonged to giant squid, however, as a result of research, this version was discarded, and the eye remained a mystery to science.
The two-headed cetacean was caught by Dutch fishermen. Scientists were never able to find out the type of sea animal, since fishermen, after taking a photo, sent it back to the sea, fearing that its possession might be considered illegal.
In front of you is a fish whose eyes glow. This type fish is called the "European Chimera". One of the representatives of this species was caught by Scott Tanner and his team from Nova Scotia (Canada). Fishermen saw a couple glowing eyes in the water and decided to catch strange creature. Fishermen, some of whom most We've spent our lives at sea and have never seen anything like it. In fact, all European chimeras have glowing eyes, which allows them to catch fish. great depth, where there is very little light, however, due to the fact that they live at the very bottom of the ocean, they become prey for sailors extremely rarely.
Giant Antarctic squid. Was caught off the coast of New Zealand. Considered to be the largest squid ever caught. Weight sea creature amounted to 450 kilograms.
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Creepy fish that live at the bottom of the ocean can easily outshine the most frightening scary monsters from the cinema. This fish was caught in the ocean near Australia.
This photo does not belong to underwater monsters, but it is no less scary, so it’s worth telling about it. A creepy discovery was made in 2016. Two fishermen in the Philippines were out to sea when they saw a strange yacht adrift. When they boarded the yacht, they discovered the body of a man who had been literally mummified by the salty air of the ocean, dry winds and high temperature air. It later turned out that the fisherman was a German yachtsman, Manfred Fritz Bajorath.
A fish with two mouths was caught in Australia.
Pelagic largemouth shark- a type of shark that is extremely rare for people due to the fact that it lives at great depths.
The giant fish "Herring King" was washed ashore, after which more than 10 people took photos with it, holding the snake-like creature in their hands, showing off its extraordinary length. Herring king this fish was nicknamed by Norwegian fishermen, who often noticed giant creature in schools of herring.
A creepy frilled shark was caught off the coast of Australia. It looks very creepy.
Giant Moonfish or Sunfish. The largest specimen was caught in 1910. The weight of this fish is 1580 kg.
Branched brittle star or snaketail. Marine animals that live at the bottom of the seas. A branched brittle star was caught in Singapore and scared the fisherman to death. Indeed, this animal is extremely unusual and very creepy. More like a cross between starfish, corals and worms, which are intertwined into one lump. Once in the boat with the sailor, the creature wriggled with all its limbs.
The real monster was caught near Fukushima, Japan. This is a catfish fish, which for unknown reasons has reached gigantic proportions. Regular representatives of this species reach a maximum of one meter in length and weigh up to 15 kg. The caught specimen was twice as large.
Many people think that our planet has already been thoroughly studied. This is not at all true. In the last ten years, for example, biologists and other scientists have discovered and described in detail about one hundred thousand new species of animals!
Lesula
Endemic equatorial Africa, which for some reason is very actively hunted by local residents. This is the first the new kind monkeys since 1984.
Oliniguito
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Imagine the descendant of a cat and a cute teddy bear - this is exactly what oliniguito looks like. It is very difficult to meet the animal; it lives only in cloud forests, high on the slopes of the Andes.
Armored earth snail
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Scientists discovered this almost by accident unusual look. Pantsirnaya land snail lives in caves in western Croatia, about 900 meters underground. She has no eyes at all.
Night leaf-tailed gecko
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It is very difficult to notice such a master of camouflage. Biologists long years were looking for new types of geckos and couldn't spot this one right in front of our eyes!
Cambodian dressmaker
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As you can guess from the name, the bird is found only in Cambodia. Unfortunately, recently open view is endangered due to climate change.
Burmese snub-nosed monkey
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By a whim of nature, poor Rhinopithecus has no nose at all. When it rains, the monkey sneezes because water flows right into his sinuses!
Paedophryne amauensis
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The microfrog is officially recognized as the smallest vertebrate on the entire planet. The size of Paedophryne amauensis does not exceed seven millimeters - it is surprising that scientists were able to see it at all.
Varanus bitatawa
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Scientists discovered Varanus bitatawa for the first time quite recently. The monitor lizard's distribution area is limited to the forests of the central Sierra Madre - it's a kind of stay-at-home monitor lizard.
Scary fisherman
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The deep-sea anglerfish itself surprises scientists, and the Lasiognathus dinema species has become a phenomenon. The predator is found only in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of one and a half kilometers; it was discovered only last year.
Our planet seems completely familiar and studied far and wide. But in the last 10 years alone, biologists have described more than one hundred thousand new species of animals and plants. “Around the World” selected the 20 most interesting
In the news flow, messages appear every now and then about the disappearance of another species, about the Red Data Books and the struggle for conservation. species diversity. In fact, taxonomic reference books only swell from year to year: so many new species are discovered that they don’t even have time to properly describe them. And among the discoverers there are not only biologists. So, during the filming of Titanic, James Cameron became the “father” of a whole new family of shrimp - simply because ocean depths almost unexplored, and almost any person can become the author of the discovery of a new species. Experts believe that the waters of the World Ocean are home to hundreds of thousands of currently unknown species of fish, mollusks and crustaceans (not to mention protozoa). On land, too, new species are constantly being discovered, and this is not necessarily a small bug or bacterium - a few years ago, say, through DNA analysis, elephants from Borneo were recognized as a separate subspecies.
International Institute for Species Studies(IISE) , located in American city Since 2008, Syracuse (New York) has annually published a ranking of the 10 most remarkable species of living things (including extinct organisms) described over the past 12 months. With the help of specialists IISE“Around the World” collected the top 20 over the past decade.
People have been familiar with Galapagos, or elephant, tortoises for a long time: it is known that in the 19th century, Charles Darwin’s observations of different populations elephant turtles made the most serious contribution to his theory of evolution. But only in 2015, the population of these animals on the island of Santa Cruz (Galapagos archipelago) was identified as separate species based on genetic and morphological data. It is named after the caretaker of the Galapagos National Park, Fausto Llerena Sánchez (Don Fausto), who dedicated 43 years to this work.
Scary fisherman
Lasiognathus dinema
In 2015, a new species was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of about one and a half kilometers deep sea anglerfish. Like all anglerfish (or monkfish), Lasiognathus dinema- a predator that lures victims to the light at the end of its fishing rod (a modified upper fin with a colony of luminescent bacteria).
Beetle toy
Megaceras briansaltini
Belongs to the subfamily of duplyakov within the family Lamelidae. Discovered in 2008 in Peru (generally, Megaceras found only in southern and Central America). Surprisingly similar to the rhinoceros beetle Dim from the Disney film "The Adventures of Flick", filmed eight years before the opening Megaceras briansaltini.
Psychedelic clown
Histiophryne psychedelica
Discovered in 2008 off the coast of Ambon Island in Indonesia. This representative of the clown family does not actually swim, but jumps along the bottom, pushing off from it with modified pectoral fins (more like paws) and creating jet thrust sudden ejection of water from the gill slits.
sea pony
Hippocampus satomiae
The tiny seahorse, 1.5 cm long and 1 cm high, was discovered in 2008. Today it is the smallest representative of the needle family. (Syngnathidae). Named after diver Satomi Onishi, who first caught this funny fish. “Pony” lives at a depth of 15–20 meters in the area of Derawan Island (Indonesia). Sea Horses viviparous - in particular, there were eight developing embryos in the brood pouch of the caught specimen.
Sneezing Pithecus
Rhinopithecus strykeri
The Burmese snub-nosed monkey was discovered in 2010. Due to the strange structure of the nose, the animal sneezes during rain: water pours into the nostrils, and the poor rhinopithecus has to look for shelter, because with such a nose it won’t take long to choke.
Fire cockroach
Lucihormetica luckae
Perhaps this species has already become extinct, because since 1939 no one has come across new specimens. Lived in Ecuador. On the chest there are two luminescent spots of a bacterial nature. This is the only one famous case protective mimicry using bioluminescence (the cockroach disguised itself as poisonous beetles from the genus of fire-bearing click beetles).
Nanofrog
Paedophryne amanuensi
The frog, endemic to Papua New Guinea, was discovered in 2009, and in 2013 it was recognized as the smallest vertebrate animal on Earth (about 7 mm). It is approximately 3,000 times shorter than the largest vertebrate, the blue whale.
Darwin's spider
Caerostris darwini
A small (3 to 6 mm) spider living in Madagascar. Its surface area catcher net(web) can reach almost three square meters. The impact strength of its webs rises up to 520 MJ/m 3, which is twice the impact strength of previously known webs and 10 times higher than the Kevlar material. The spider was found in 2001, but described only in 2009 - this event was timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's book “The Origin of Species” (hence its name).
Raccoon in the fog
Bassaricyon neblina
Living in Colombia and Ecuador funny animal- the only thing carnivorous mammal, described in the Western Hemisphere over the past 35 years. Belongs to the genus Olingo of the raccoon family. Species Latin name neblina derived from the Spanish "fog" (in honor of the foggy mountain forests, in which olinguito lives).
Mega instance
Phryganistria tamdaeoensis
This is not the largest stick insect in the world, it is slightly shorter than the record holder (Chan's megastick insect with elongated limbs reaches a length of 60 cm). However, it was found last year in national park right next to the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi, and not at all in the wild jungle.
Unfriendly fly
Semachrysa jade
The jade lacewing, which lives in Malaysia, was discovered in 2012 thanks to an amateur photographer who posted a photo of it on social media. Flickr and asked someone to help identify the species. The unusual veining of the wings makes this fly look like a spider ready to attack.
Strong but light monitor lizard
Varanus bitatawa
This large lizard lives in the central part Philippine island Luzon. It lives in the crowns of trees, reaches two meters in length, but weighs only about 10 kilograms. Peaceful, feeds on fruits and snails. Endangered: local tribes actively hunt this monitor lizard for its meat. The species was described in 2010.
Monkey philosopher
Cercopithecus lomamiensis
It was discovered by biologists already in the 21st century (by the way, this is only the second species of monkey found in Africa over the past 30 years). Locals(Congo) had known her for a long time, called her lesula and ate her with pleasure.
Glowing gastropod
Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum
This one is beautiful gastropod living in the area Japanese Islands, can glow. But what is important to biologists is that in his person they found intermediate between gastropods that feed on hydroid polyps and gastropods that prefer a coral diet.
Skeleton goat
Liropus minusculus
Sea goat creature (Caprellidae) amazes with its phantasmagoric appearance. Lives in Pacific Ocean, near the Californian coast. It is difficult to see without a microscope (body length is 2–3 mm). Described in 2013.
Snake deceiver
Sibon noalamina
This dangerous-looking snake (found in Panama) quite peacefully feeds on snails, slugs and earthworms. It protects itself from enemies by coloring, copying the characteristic combination of light and black rings of very poisonous coral snakes. Described in 2012.
Pancake fish
Halieutichthys intermedius
This creature, which resembles a poorly fried lumpy pancake, comes from the bat family. monkfish(this may partly explain her non-standard appearance). The species was first discovered in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The pancake fish does not swim so much as crawl along the bottom, relying on its fins. Predator. It hides, burrows into the soil, and lures prey by releasing substances with a strong odor into the water.
Very slow snail
Zospeum tholussum
By land pulmonary snails(discovered in 2010), living in the darkness of Croatian caves, do not need either eyes or pigmentation of the shell (the height of which is no more than 2 mm). Even by snail standards, they are very slow: they move a couple of centimeters per week.
Last summer, as usual, I was relaxing at a dacha 50 kilometers from Moscow along the Yaroslavl highway. The vacation fell on the month of June. The last working day was coming to an end, the vacation money was already in my pocket, time was dragging on endlessly. At 15:30 I jumped into the car and hurried to the dacha before traffic jams paralyzed traffic in the city too much. The bags had been packed since yesterday evening.
I’ve been a fan of fishing since childhood, so that same evening I got ready for night fishing. The crucian carp had already spawned, so the bite should not have been bad. I also decided on a place for fishing - a small flowing pond, from which a stream flows, meandering through forests and fields (it later turns into the Yakhroma River). The pond was located about 15 kilometers northwest of my village, in the middle of a field overgrown with weeds. It was a fairly remote place, surrounded by forest on all sides, which is what attracted me to it. Having collected everything I needed, I left the house before dark.
The road wound past unplowed fields and coniferous forests, and thickets of hogweed stretched along it. After 15 minutes of travel, I turned off the main road and, having driven another couple of kilometers, found myself in a small empty parking lot, apparently intended for timber trucks and other equipment serving the high-voltage line running through the forest clearing. The road ended; then we had to walk through the field for about a kilometer.
Leaving the car at a dead end, I went to the pond. It was getting dark, a yellow moon hung in the sky, fog thickened over the field, and the air smelled of herbs and damp earth. Somewhere in the willow thickets, nightingales began to sing their mating songs. I mentally praised myself for choosing this secluded place, and soon found myself on the shore of the pond.
I lit a fire, went down to the water and “loaded” two fishing rods, set up bite alarms, then, returning to the fire, lit a pipe and took a bottle of Cabernet from my backpack. The night thickened around the fire, night insects flashed in the sky above the pond and the bats. I was sitting, lost in thought, turning over unfulfilled dreams in my head, and sipping wine, when I suddenly heard the bite alarm ringing. I hurried to the water, reeled in the reel on the hook - it turned out to be a good crucian carp by local standards. Having put the fish in the cage and fiddled with the bait for a while, I turned around to go back to the fire, and froze...
Four people sat silently near the fire. I was alarmed not only by the very fact of their presence in such a remote, remote place, but also by their silent and unceremonious appearance near my “camp.”
Well, nothing can be done - I go up to the fire, sit down in my rightful place, and greet the uninvited guests. There was only silence in response. Having looked closely, I was really scared - I didn’t know three of the men, and the fourth was mine old friend Andrey, who absurdly died 8 years ago in an accident...
Silently, holding my breath, I sit in a daze, unable to move. Their unnaturally pale, almost white faces look down somewhere. Suddenly all four simultaneously raised their faces and looked at me. The flames of the fire were reflected in their eyes. Andrey spoke in a slow, low voice: “We were sent for you because HE doesn’t need you anymore.”
All four grinned in unison, baring their teeth. I was barely able to say something like: “I don’t want to go anywhere, leave me alone” - but they still looked at me angrily.
I began to come to my senses a little, thoughts appeared in my head. The first thing that came to mind was to jump up and run as fast as I could, but the car was about a kilometer across the field, and I understood perfectly well that these creatures were not people, and I would not have time to run.
Then another thought came to mind: the stream feeding this pond flows from a source located three hundred meters to the south. I heard from locals that this source was once consecrated. If these creatures are not human, they may not be able to reach me there. In any case, it was impossible to stay with them. I ran as fast as I could towards the source. At this moment, fear no longer held me back, but, on the contrary, gave me speed. Moans and wheezing were heard from behind. uninvited guests" It seemed that they were catching up with me - stupid, but at that moment the classic phrase was spinning in my mind: “Dead men drive fast.”
I still managed to run into the gate of the source, but they remained behind the fence. It seems that I was right - they were not able to enter here. I fell on the steps leading to the well, and, catching my breath, began to read the only prayer I knew: “Our Father.” I even wanted to sprinkle holy water on them, but did not dare. Meanwhile, they demanded that I come out to them, threatened me, cursed and shouted.
Morning twilight began. The four looked at each other and disappeared into the fog hanging over the field. I sat in my “shelter” until the hot June sun rose high in the sky, then ran to the car without looking back.
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20 new animals of the 21st century
Our planet seems completely familiar and studied far and wide. But in the last 10 years alone, biologists have described more than one hundred thousand new species of animals and plants. “Around the World” has selected the 20 most interesting...
In the flow of news, messages appear every now and then about the disappearance of another species, about the Red Data Books and the struggle to preserve species diversity. In fact, taxonomic reference books only swell from year to year: so many new species are discovered that they don’t even have time to properly describe them. And among the discoverers there are not only biologists. Thus, during the filming of Titanic, James Cameron became the “father” of a whole new family of shrimp - simply because the ocean depths are almost unexplored, and almost anyone can become the author of the discovery of a new species. Experts believe that the waters of the World Ocean are home to hundreds of thousands of currently unknown species of fish, mollusks and crustaceans (not to mention protozoa). On land, too, new species are constantly being discovered, and this is not necessarily a small bug or bacterium - a few years ago, say, through DNA analysis, elephants from Borneo were recognized as a separate subspecies.
Since 2008, the International Institute for the Study of Species (IISE), located in the American city of Syracuse (New York), has annually published a ranking of the 10 most remarkable species of living beings (including extinct organisms) described over the past 12 months. With the help of IISE specialists, Around the World collected the top 20 over the past decade.
Giant turtle
Chelonoidis donfaustoi
People have been familiar with Galapagos, or elephant, tortoises for a long time: it is known that in the 19th century, Charles Darwin’s observations of different populations of elephant tortoises made the most serious contribution to his theory of evolution. But only in 2015, the population of these animals on the island of Santa Cruz (Galapagos archipelago) was identified as a separate species based on genetic and morphological data. It is named after the caretaker of the Galapagos National Park, Fausto Llerena Sánchez (Don Fausto), who dedicated 43 years to this work.
Scary fisherman
Lasiognathus dinema
In 2015, a new species of deep-sea anglerfish was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of about one and a half kilometers. Like all anglerfish (or sea devils), Lasiognathus dinema is a predator, luring victims to the light at the end of its fishing rod (a modified upper fin with a colony of luminescent bacteria).
Beetle toy
Megaceras briansaltini
Belongs to the subfamily of duplyakov within the family Lamelidae. Discovered in 2008 in Peru (in general, Megaceras are found only in South and Central America). Remarkably similar to Dim the rhinoceros beetle from the Disney film The Adventures of Flick, filmed eight years before the discovery of Megaceras briansaltini.
Killer Sponge
Chondrocladia turboformis
The first carnivorous sponges were discovered in the 90s of the last century and caused great surprise among scientists. This species is the last of the predator sponges found (2009). The photo shows fragments of sponge microsclera (primitive silicon skeleton). Some biologists believe that sponges are not even primitive multicellular animals, but are colonial protozoa.
Psychedelic clown
Histiophryne psychedelica
Discovered in 2008 off the coast of Ambon Island in Indonesia. This representative of the clown family does not actually swim, but jumps along the bottom, pushing off from it with modified pectoral fins (more like paws) and creating jet thrust by sharply throwing water out of the gill slits.
sea pony
Hippocampus satomiae
The tiny seahorse, 1.5 cm long and 1 cm high, was discovered in 2008. Today it is the smallest representative of the needle family (Syngnathidae). Named after diver Satomi Onishi, who first caught this funny fish. “Pony” lives at a depth of 15–20 meters in the area of Derawan Island (Indonesia). Seahorses are viviparous - in particular, there were eight developing embryos in the brood pouch of the caught specimen.
Sneezing Pithecus
Rhinopithecus strykeri
The Burmese snub-nosed monkey was discovered in 2010. Due to the strange structure of the nose, the animal sneezes during rain: water pours into the nostrils, and the poor rhinopithecus has to look for shelter, because with such a nose it won’t take long to choke.
Fire cockroach
Lucihormetica luckae
Perhaps this species has already become extinct, because since 1939 no one has come across new specimens. Lived in Ecuador. On the chest there are two luminescent spots of a bacterial nature. This is the only known case of protective mimicry using bioluminescence (the cockroach disguised itself as poisonous beetles from the genus of fire-bearing click beetles).
Nanofrog
Paedophryne amanuensi
The frog, endemic to Papua New Guinea, was discovered in 2009, and in 2013 it was recognized as the smallest vertebrate animal on Earth (about 7 mm). It is approximately 3,000 times shorter than the largest vertebrate, the blue whale.
Darwin's spider
Caerostris darwini
A small (3 to 6 mm) spider living in Madagascar. The surface area of its fishing net (web) can reach almost three square meters. The impact strength of its webs rises up to 520 MJ/m3, which is twice the impact strength of previously known webs and 10 times higher than the Kevlar material. The spider was found in 2001, but described only in 2009 - this event was timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's book “The Origin of Species” (hence its name).
Raccoon in the fog
Bassaricyon neblina
Living in Colombia and Ecuador, the funny animal is the only predatory mammal described in the Western Hemisphere over the past 35 years. Belongs to the genus Olingo of the raccoon family. The Latin species name neblina is derived from the Spanish “fog” (in honor of the foggy mountain forests in which the olinguito lives).
Mega instance
Phryganistria tamdaeoensis
This is not the largest stick insect in the world, it is slightly shorter than the record holder (Chan's megastick insect with elongated limbs reaches a length of 60 cm). However, it was found last year in a national park right next to the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, and not in the wild jungle.
Unfriendly fly
Semachrysa jade
The jade lacewing, which lives in Malaysia, was discovered in 2012 thanks to an amateur photographer who posted a photo of it on the social network Flickr and asked for someone to help identify the species. The unusual veining of the wings makes this fly look like a spider ready to attack.
Strong but light monitor lizard
Varanus bitatawa
This large lizard lives in the central part of the Philippine island of Luzon. It lives in the crowns of trees, reaches two meters in length, but weighs only about 10 kilograms. Peaceful, feeds on fruits and snails. Endangered: local tribes actively hunt this monitor lizard for its meat. The species was described in 2010.
Monkey philosopher
Cercopithecus lomamiensis
It was discovered by biologists already in the 21st century (by the way, this is only the second species of monkey found in Africa over the past 30 years). Local residents (Congo) were familiar with it for a long time, called it lesula and enjoyed eating it.
Glowing gastropod
Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum
This beautiful gastropod, living in the area of the Japanese Islands, can glow. But what is important for biologists is that in him they have found an intermediate link between gastropods that feed on hydroid polyps and gastropods that prefer a coral diet.
Skeleton goat
Liropus minusculus
A creature from the sea goat family (Caprellidae) amazes with its phantasmagoric appearance. Lives in the Pacific Ocean, near the Californian coast. It is difficult to see without a microscope (body length is 2–3 mm). Described in 2013.
Snake deceiver
Sibon noalamina
This dangerous-looking snake (found in Panama) quite peacefully feeds on snails, slugs and earthworms. It protects itself from enemies by coloring, copying the characteristic combination of light and black rings of very poisonous coral snakes. Described in 2012.
Pancake fish
Halieutichthys intermedius
This creature, which resembles a poorly fried, lumpy pancake, comes from the pipistrelle family of monkfish (this may partly explain its unusual appearance). The species was first discovered in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The pancake fish does not swim so much as crawl along the bottom, relying on its fins. Predator. It hides, burrows into the soil, and lures prey by releasing substances with a strong odor into the water.
Very slow snail
Zospeum tholussum
Land pulmonate snails (discovered in 2010), living in the darkness of Croatian caves, do not need either eyes or pigmentation of the shell (the height of which is no more than 2 mm). Even by snail standards, they are very slow: they move a couple of centimeters per week.