Is the orange roughy aware that it has a Brucerolis brandtae right under its nose? According to ongoing studies here at NIWA, the isopod has nothing to worry about, orange roughy nearly exclusively eat shrimp and small myctophid fish which all swim well above the bottom.
Photo taken between 800-900m over the Graveyard seamount of the Chatham Rise.
Credit: DTIS NIWA/ Seamount voyage.