Smallest organisms with mature females measuring as little as in standard length. This fish, a member of the carp family, has a translucent body and a head unprotected by a skeleton. The one of world's smallest fish based on the minimum size at maturity is "Schindleria brevipinguis" from Australia,their females reach it at 7 mm (0.28 in) and males at 6.5 mm (0.26 in), Males of "S. brevipinguis" have an average standard length of , a gravid female was . This fish, a member of the goby family,its first anal-fin ray further forward, under dorsal-fin 4. Male individuals of the anglerfish species
Continent the "continents" (or mainlands) of Isle of Man, Ireland and Wales and in 1745 to Sumatra. The word "continent" was used in translating Greek and Latin writings about the three "parts" of the world, although in the original languages no word of exactly the same meaning as "continent" was used. While "continent" was used on the one hand for relatively small areas of continuous land, on the other hand geographers again raised Herodotus's query about why a single large landmass should be divided into separate continents. In the mid-17th century, Peter Heylin wrote in his "Cosmographie" that "A Continent is