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 had reached a new continent—he always thought it was part of Asia. In 1501, Amerigo Vespucci and Gonçalo Coelho attempted to sail around what they considered the southern end of the Asian mainland into the Indian Ocean, passing through Fernando de Noronha. After reaching the coast of Brazil, they sailed a long way further south along the coast of South America, confirming that this was a land of continental proportions and that it also extended much further south than Asia was known to. On return to Europe, an account of the voyage, called "Mundus Novus" ("New World"), was published under