Professional fisherman Jason Moyce took to social media recently (where he goes by the moniker Trapman Bermagui) to share a picture of an unknown creature he had caught off Sydney.
He described it as "the ugliest fish" he had ever seen and asked his followers to share their thoughts about what type of fish it was.
The fisherman himself suggested the creature was a blobfish, and his followers either agreed or suggested that it could be a monkfish or a toadfish.
"It was 4kg and caught in 540m deep waters", Moyce said, quoted by Newsweek.
However, James Maclaine, a senior curator of fish at London's Natural History Museum, who was interviewed by Newsweek, said the creature was "definitely not a blobfish".
"That looks to me very much like a monkfish - also known as an anglerfish - from the family Lophiidae... In fact I'd bet money on it because I'm pretty sure I can see the lure it uses to catch its prey, just between the eyes," Maclaine said.