The head seems a fighter-plane cockpit
Its highly sensitive eyes are included in its transparent head shield, working the two green spheres as lenses of its tubular eyes.
Above the mouth, the two dark capsules that appear to be eyes, actually contain the fish’s olfactory organs, or the equivalent of nostrils.
The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact. The 15 cm Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939, but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.
Its highly sensitive eyes are included in its transparent head shield, working the two green spheres as lenses of its tubular eyes.
Above the mouth, the two dark capsules that appear to be eyes, actually contain the fish’s olfactory organs, or the equivalent of nostrils.
The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact. The 15 cm Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939, but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.
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