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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.
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 ‘spherical’ sex organ found in China is new species. See it ‘Large’ sea creature breathes with its legs, sucks prey with ‘straw.’
These predatory fish can grow up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) and 45.4 kg (100 lb). [93] [94] Killifish and allies (Cyprinodontiformes) The largest species in this relatively small-bodied order is the Pacific four-eyed fish (Anableps dowei), reaching a size of 34 cm (13 in) and 588 g (1.296 lb). [95] Ladyfish and allies (Elopiformes)
The curious looking Pristigenys alta, or short bigeye fish, has captured the curiosity of many at the Jersey Shore this summer. This fish was caught in a seine net at Wreck Pond in Spring Lake.
The John Dory is an example of a fish known as a Dory. The common name dory (from the Middle English dorre, from the Middle French doree, lit. ' gilded one ') is shared (officially and colloquially) by members of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.