Talk:Psychrolutes marcidus

message: There should be something on the page about how endangered it is.128.84.114.152 (talk) 14:37, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It has not yet been evaluated, neither locally or internationally. Narabella (talk) 01:24, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ecological Status 

message: Q:How does it mate?  09:26, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mating 

message: Would be great if someone could upload a pic, i love these wierdos :)--sin-man 10:16, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: These fish are awesome. Please do upload a picture. 72.51.165.224 (talk) 04:15, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

text: There's an image here.-- OsirisV (talk) 11:39, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pic? 

message: "...the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass...." "It can be caught by bottom trawling with nets." And why would you want to? Cstaffa (talk) 06:15, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Most likely they are caught as bycatch, but it would be good to find a reference verifying this. 58.147.58.28 (talk) 13:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Daily Mail article says so. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 14:36, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use? 

message: A photo of the fish in the wild, if/when one exists, will probably serve this article better than the one that's there. The fish's gelatinous mass is probably shaped significantly differently when it's supported by water than when it's sitting on a dry surface. —Ipoellet (talk) 00:30, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit hopeful. The two current images are enough, and when I expand the article there'll be enough space for both. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 17:53, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: is dated 27th January, yet was retrieved on the 25th.  Time-travelling Wikipedians?  Amzi  (Talk To Me)  12:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed; someone made a typo. - M0rphzone (talk) 06:40, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daily Mail citation 

message: The picture currently on the article doesn't really say as much as a photograph would. The pictures here are great, but they appear to be copyrighted. I wonder if someone could upload one of the pictures to the article as fair use though?
King Jakob C 19:35, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd argue to the contrary, the decompressed out-of-the-water photos aren't terribly representative of what the fish look like in their natural habitat. Such a photo might be valuable as an illustration to the section on the blobfish's internet fame, but something closer to this (but not so copyrighted or tiny) would be a more representative photograph if any for the top box.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bolddeciever (talk • contribs) 17:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Switch 'poor drawing' with  or add alongside it.
Rcaauwe (talk) 23:54, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Done by ‎Pinethicket. Materialscientist (talk) 01:15, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What is situ? MarioNovi (talk) 16:15, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It is blue linked: "to examine the phenomenon exactly in place where it occurs".  Pinethicket (talk) 16:22, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That picture looks different from the one at the top, but I believe they both claim to be in situ, yes? MarioNovi (talk) 21:25, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but this one does not pretend to be accurate, it is an artist's impression. Materialscientist (talk) 04:39, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 27 September 2013 

message: Episode 6, Season 1 of the Disney Junior series, The Octonauts featured the blobfish. The Octonauts had to rescue three blobfish from an area surrounding an underwater volcano that was about to erupt. The blobfish were depicted in their decompressed state, as usually seen on internet pics of this fish. The "creature report" song at the end of the segment is also about the blobfish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg3DQ7dZvEk  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbluspiro (talk • contribs) 00:03, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Trivial mention, not significant enough for inclusion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:29, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit Request for Popular Culture Section 

message: This article is way too short and is missing important information on the species' ecology, behavior, habitat, diet, and more. These are extremely important pieces of information that need to be added to the article.--Paleface Jack (talk) 19:29, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Information 

message: Every year people will vote for the WORLD UGLIEST ANIMAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY but in 2013 our winner is a whole different, a jelly little pink creature call “Blobfish” had been voted for the world’s ugliest animal and become known since then. Thus this makes the Blob become the group's official mascot with its blancmange look and miserable face.   
Blobfish have been called as the deep sea blancmange but they definitely don’t taste like it, actually there is a reason behind. Blobfish lives at depths of 500-1,200 meters in the ocean, which produce the pressure many time greater than a sea level. Even the normal fishes can’t survive in the area, their swim bladder that allows most fish to float and swim would collapse under this extreme pressure. Instead Blobfish use a fatty substance to fill its body and it become full of gelatinous flesh without any skeleton or real muscles. 
The casue of no real organs that allows them to swim, they just hover above the ocean floor waiting for food to come to them. They mostly eat gormless sea urchins, molluscs and crustaceans that are too dumb and slow to escape. But all those information is just an assumer of an academician. Because Blobfish lives too deep in the ocean, even human can’t go to explore the area. So we barely know about its biology and ecology. All of the information has to be inferred by learning about its relatives since we are not able to go that deep down the ocean to explore or document them. We only see them, if we are lucky enough, when fisherman catch it by mistake. But after this summer everything is going to be changed. Blobfish wouldn’t be a rare thing anymore but it will have their first pop-up café in London.
The Blobfish café, open this summer with the slogan of ‘the world first face to face blob fish experience’. Like other animal’s café, Blobfish will be transferred from Australian ocean into the tank. Definitely the tank need to contain pressure as same as in the depths of 500-1,200 deep, so we won’t be able to play with it but they guarantee that you will see them the whole time you visit the café. Now the world will know these little pink creatures as Barry, Lorcan and Lady swift. ( blobfishcafe.com, 2016 )
In conclusion Blobfish continue to play more role in people since they have been declaring as the world ugliest animal in 2013 and no one can stop this anymore. It is the time for you to get in touch with the world, knowing this wonderful creature and be prepared for them.          
Sam Haysom
June 24, 2015
London's Blobfish Cafe might house 3 of the 'world's ugliest animals
http://mashable.com/2015/06/24/londons-blobfish-cafe/#Gz7R8t5aJgqg
Ben Norum
23 june 2015
A blobfish café is coming to east London
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/a-blobfish-caf-is-coming-to-east-london-10338373.html
Bryan Nelson
Feb 16, 2016
13 of the ugliest animals on the planet
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/13-of-the-ugliest-animals-on-the-planet/blobfish
No 16, 2016
Blobfish — 10 Facts about the Kings and Queens of Ugly
http://ipfactly.com/blobfish/
Jjiibbpp (talk) 16:07, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. EvergreenFir (talk) Please  20:41, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  role with human 

message: Every year people will vote for the WORLD UGLIEST ANIMAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY but in 2013 our winner is a whole different, a jelly little pink creature call “Blobfish” had been voted for the world’s ugliest animal and become known since then. Thus this makes the Blob become the group's official mascot with its blancmange look and miserable face.   
Blobfish have been called as the deep sea blancmange but they definitely don’t taste like it, actually there is a reason behind. Blobfish lives at depths of 500-1,200 meters in the ocean, which produce the pressure many time greater than a sea level. Even the normal fishes can’t survive in the area, their swim bladder that allows most fish to float and swim would collapse under this extreme pressure. Instead Blobfish use a fatty substance to fill its body and it become full of gelatinous flesh without any skeleton or real muscles. 
The casue of no real organs that allows them to swim, they just hover above the ocean floor waiting for food to come to them. They mostly eat gormless sea urchins, molluscs and crustaceans that are too dumb and slow to escape. But all those information is just an assumer of an academician. Because Blobfish lives too deep in the ocean, even human can’t go to explore the area. So we barely know about its biology and ecology. All of the information has to be inferred by learning about its relatives since we are not able to go that deep down the ocean to explore or document them. We only see them, if we are lucky enough, when fisherman catch it by mistake. But after this summer everything is going to be changed. Blobfish wouldn’t be a rare thing anymore but it will have their first pop-up café in London.
The Blobfish café, open this summer with the slogan of ‘the world first face to face blob fish experience’. Like other animal’s café, Blobfish will be transferred from Australian ocean into the tank. Definitely the tank need to contain pressure as same as in the depths of 500-1,200 deep, so we won’t be able to play with it but they guarantee that you will see them the whole time you visit the café. Now the world will know these little pink creatures as Barry, Lorcan and Lady swift. ( blobfishcafe.com, 2015 )
In conclusion Blobfish continue to play more role in people since they have been declaring as the world ugliest animal in 2013 and no one can stop this anymore. It is the time for you to get in touch with the world, knowing this wonderful creature and be prepared for them.          
Sam Haysom
June 24, 2015
London's Blobfish Cafe might house 3 of the 'world's ugliest animals
http://mashable.com/2015/06/24/londons-blobfish-cafe/#Gz7R8t5aJgqg
Ben Norum
23 june 2015
A blobfish café is coming to east London
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/a-blobfish-caf-is-coming-to-east-london-10338373.html
Bryan Nelson
Feb 16, 2016
13 of the ugliest animals on the planet
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/13-of-the-ugliest-animals-on-the-planet/blobfish
No 16, 2016
Blobfish — 10 Facts about the Kings and Queens of Ugly
http://ipfactly.com/blobfish/
Jjiibbpp (talk) 16:18, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Terra ❤ 06:12, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  roles with human 

message: Add  template.
--186.84.46.227 (talk) 01:45, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:48, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 June 2016 

message: Hi mate, Just wanted you to know that Blobfish and extremely endangered as there are less than 1000 about in the wild. Msmichailaros (talk) 07:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Source?  We don't report things on Wikipedia unless they are supported by a reliable source. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:26, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. L293D (☎ • ✎) 13:57, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 May 2018 

message: *Smithsonian Magazine
*Science News
*Iflscience
A few sources that mention how a particular 2003 image went viral and introduced blobfish into popular culture. If there is to be an IPC section in this article, these are vital sources, not random video clips where blobfishes are mentioned. Plantdrew (talk)
:You've got it wrong.  There are all kinds of reliable sources, and those listed above are some of them, but not the sum total of them.  Any item sourced to a reliable source is usable, whether or not their your chosen few. Beyond My Ken (talk)
::, you're defending a laundry list of poorly sourced trivia. A good pop culture section would include something very roughly along the lines of:
:::"A photograph of a blobfish taken in 2003 circulated the internet for a while. In 2013, in a publicity stunt that was widely reported, blobfish were named the world's ugliest animal. Following this coverage, blobfish saw increasing popular culture notoriety and made appearances in television shows, online newspaper features, advertisements and internet cartoons."
::The sources I mentioned above support the 2003 photo and 2013 publicity stunt, which are the key event defining blob fish in popular culture. The pop culture sources now in the article potentially could support blobfish appearing in "television shows, online newspaper features, advertisements and internet cartoons", but it's not appropriate to describe each of these appearances in detail.
::However, the sources given for the various pop culture examples aren't necessarily reliable for Wikipedia.
::The Homestar Runner examples is sourced to user generated content (another Wiki).
::You participated in the discussion regarding sourcing of IPC content, which I understand was closed contrary to your preferences. However, the existing sources for "online newspaper features" (Ted Cruz/NY Daily News}, "television shows" (SNL/Youtube), and probably "advertisements" (CreditStar/deleted video at ispot.tv, with short text description) are all cases of self sourcing which was rejected in the RfC.
::X-Files. You replied to a request by an IP to add a sourced mention of an X-Files appearance with "Trivial mention, not significant enough for inclusion" on 7 March 2018. I just now removed a (differently) sourced mention that was added a little later in March 2018. I'm inclined to think that the appearance in X-Files is indeed "not significant enough for inclusion", but the difference in your opinion regarding including the X-Files mention puzzles me. Is it that the IP provided secondary source only mentioned "blobfish" in passing and the Eonline source spends a little more time on blobfish? Either way, the X-Files epidode spent the same amount of time on blobfish. Increased detail in a secondary (non-self) source is not the bar that needs to be passed. Plantdrew (talk) 04:55, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop culture sources 

message: Fuc fact: Blobfish was voted the world's ugliest fish (as of 2010).
마우막 (talk) 20:46, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Have removed the part of the article that was the same and left the requested additions. , the image is copyrighted and it's not quite clear whether that survey was a noteworthy one. – Thjarkur (talk) 21:50, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 14 September 2020 

message: The psychrolutes marcidus was first discovered around the Norfolk and Lord Howe islands, which are found in-between Australia and New Zealand. This discovery was made by a team of two dozen scientist. During this exploration of submarine habitats, the team towed gear on the ocean floor in order to net and study different species. Among the all the new species the caught was the psychrolutes marcidus.LIDZ, F. (2015). Behold the Blobfish. Smithsonian, 46(7), 19–24. Fmass3 (talk) 22:27, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 October 2022 

message: According to Island Bay Marine Education Centre "Females lay up to 100,000 eggs in a single nest in rocky areas, on top of deep ocean platforms with warmer water temperatures".
Blobfish facts. Island Bay Marine Education Centre. (2020, June 12). Retrieved March 17, 2023, from https://octopus.org.nz/content/blobfish-facts Kanye H (talk) 04:59, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female blobfish eggs