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What's the most dangerous fish you can think of?

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swordfish, obviously. its got a big fucking sword
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>>83500
"Oarfish are large, greatly elongated, pelagic Lampriform fish comprising the small family Regalecidae.[1] Found in all temperate to tropical oceans yet rarely seen, the oarfish family contains four species in two genera. One of these, the king of herrings (Regalecus glesne), is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest bony fish alive, at up to 11 metres in length."

lol WTF?
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>>83505
Ancient cultures considered it a god or a portent.
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>>83517
It's kinda funny that those things are insanely poisonous. They look so hideous that nobody would want to touch them in the first place.
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Can't remember what they're called, so I can't find a picture of them, but what about those tiny little fish that crawl inside holes and hook themselves onto the tissue, never to release again, feeding on the bloodstream of the creature they've crawled into.

They tend to clog some bigger fish's airholes and stuff, making them die.

I also heard of men who've had them up their penis, though.

Isn't that dangerous?
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http://www.chiefmag.com/issues/3/features/Candiria/?PHPSESSID=ba8174ec912e4aeb1293e8b33112005b
"Some say the candiru is attracted to urine, and one documented case of some poor bastard in the town of Itacoatiara on October 28, 1997 reads: The fish penetrated the victim's urethra while he was standing in the river urinating, actually emerging from the water and entering his penis.

The motherfucking fish swam up the urine stream into the man’s cock."
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>>83524
Read about that in a science magazine the other day. Big problem in tropical developing countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm
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woops forgot the name

Megalodon. Thank god they are extinct
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They give me the screaming willies
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>>83536
Candiru will enter a urethra, but cannot swim up a stream of urine. That's just stupid. Remember to wear lined swimtrunks in the amazon.
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>>83523
that's kind of the idea,
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>>83500
Longfish is LOOOOOOOOOOOONG

And also the principle diet of the Longcat
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>>83536
The candirú parasitizes other fish. It swims into the gill cavities of other fish, erects a spine to hold itself in place, and feeds on the blood in the gills, earning it a nickname as the "vampire fish of Brazil". Recent research [1] has shown that candirú do not suck blood, but rather latch on to an artery and have blood pumped into them.

It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine or blood[2], and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the anus or vagina, or even the penis—and deep into the urethra). It then erects its spine and begins to feed on the blood and body tissue just as it would from the gills of a fish. The candirú is then almost impossible to remove except through surgery. As the fish locates its host by following the water flow from the gills to its source, urinating while bathing increases the chance of a candirú homing in on a human urethra.

A well-circulated myth is that the candirú is capable of swimming up the stream of urine in mid-air to a victim standing on shore or a boat. However this is physically impossible as the maximum swimming velocity of the fish is opposed by the downward velocity of the urine stream, and the further impossible act of the 5-14 mm wide fish maintaining position and thrust within a 2-7 mm wide column of fluid.

A traditional cure involves the use of two plants, the Xagua plant (Genipa americana) and the Buitach apple which are inserted (or their extract in the case of tight spaces) into the affected area. These two plants together will kill and then dissolve the fish. More often, infection causes shock and death in the victim before the candirú can be removed. Though there have been documented candirú attacks on humans, there is no evidence the fish can survive once inside a human. It was recently sought after by Nick Baker, a wildlife specialist on British TV in a series about the world's strangest animals.
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>>83536
Thanks, that's the one!
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Candiru attacks have really been sensationalized...in fact, the natives living in the same range as Vandellia spp. only became aware of it's "urine tracking" capacities after Cuvier suggested that it was highly likely...aside from that, none of the "candiru attacks" documented, of which there are two, are at all reliable, and attacks on natives are always without discrete evidence.

Lab testing in v. c. indicate that they are in fact deterred by human urine.
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We should ask a fishermen, they probably rack up more injuries from fish than swimmers and divers

but I don't know any so I'm gonna say the rockfish, or the pirhanna