What a looker (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Some really ugly fish who, we’re sure, have lovely personalities have been dredged up from the deep sea.

Scientists are meeting on the island of Tasmania to examine more than 42,000 fish and invertebrates found in Australia’s eastern abyss.

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The fish were gathered up last year during the Sampling the Abyss voyage, and were found at depths of up to 4,800 metres.

More than 100 different species were collected – some of which could be totally new to science – and are going to be examined at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Australian National Fish Collection.


So many ugly fish (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Researchers also managed to pull out some blob fish – the cousin of Mr Blobby, who was voted the World’s Ugliest Fish in 2013. (Harsh)



They also found bioluminescent cookie-cutter sharks with razor-sharp serrated teeth, scary-looking lizard fish, and some lovely and graceful tripod fish.

There’s also another kind of fish that appears to have no face.

He’s got a face for radio (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Alistair Graham, manager of the Australian National Fish Collection, said: ‘The abyss is the largest and deepest habitat on the planet, covering half the world’s oceans and one third of Australia’s territory, but it remains the most unexplored environment on earth.

‘The survey collected some very rare and unusual species, and represents one of the deepest collections of fish from Australian waters.’

Dr Martin Gomon examines one of the ugly fish (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

The team collected 42,000 fish from the deep sea (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Dr Martin Gomon, an ichthyologist from Museums Victoria, said the abyss voyage was the first systematic attempt to look at life at abyssal depths near the Australian coast.

‘For those of us aboard it was a real buzz to see the amazing fish that provide this information as they emerged from the nets and we’re looking forward to the opportunity to take a closer look at them in Hobart this week,’ he said.