Fish With Transparent Head
admin | Sep 25, 2009 | 0 comments
Number of View: 759The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California’s central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.
The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye(Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939—but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes—topped by green, orblike structuresThe barreleye lives more than 2,000 feet (600 meters) beneath the ocean’s surface, where the water is almost inky.
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