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Anableps anableps, the largescale four-eyes, [3] is a species of four-eyed fish found in fresh and brackish waters of northern South America and Trinidad. This species grows to a length of 30 centimetres (12 in) total length (TL). This fish can occasionally be found in the aquarium trade. The fish does not actually have four eyes.
Air pupil 4. Tissue band 5. Iris 6. Underwater pupil 7. Air retina 8. Optic nerve. The maximum length of four-eyed fishes is up to 32 cm TL in A. microlepis, making this species the largest in the order Cyprinodontiformes. [4] Four-eyed fish have only two eyes, but the eyes are specially adapted for their surface-dwelling lifestyle.
Anablepidae is a family of ray-finned fishes which live in brackish and freshwater habitats from southern Mexico to southern South America. [2] There are three genera with sixteen species: the four-eyed fishes (genus Anableps), the onesided livebearers (genus Jenynsia) and the white-eye, Oxyzygonectes dovii.
A tiny, curious-looking, bug-eyed orange fish has popped up at several locales this summer at the Jersey Shore, begging many to take to social media to ask what it is.
The foureye butterflyfish's first instinct when threatened is to flee, putting the false eye spot closer to the predator than the head. Most predators aim for the eyes, and this false eye spot may in automimicry trick the predator into believing that the fish will flee tail first. Other potential functions of the eye spot exist.
The fish can grow to more than 30 feet long, and have large eyes and "foreboding" red spines in a crown-like cluster. Typically, these fish are deep-sea dwellers and thrive in waters that are the ...
The finescaled four-eyed fish (Anableps microlepis) is a species of four-eyed fish found in coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean from Trinidad and Tobago down to southeastern Brazil. [3] [4] [5] They mostly inhabit brackish environments such as estuaries, mangrove swamps, and tidal mudflats. It grows to approximately 30 cm (12 in) in length. [3 ...
Four-eyed creature — with ‘bright red’ body — found burrowed in sand. See new species. Moira Ritter. November 3, 2023 at 9:55 AM. Along the shore of an island in Japan, a ghost shrimp ...