Template:Did you know nominations/Vision in fishes

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Vision in fishes edit

the barreleye fish with its telescopic eyes

  • ... that the deep water barreleye fish (pictured) is so named because of its unusual visual system which uses barrel-shaped, telescopic eyes which are generally directed upwards?

Created/expanded by Richard001 (talk), Epipelagic (talk). Nominated by Epipelagic (talk) at 10:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

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  • Very intersting and well written article. Parts are copied from existing WP articles (e.g. Barreleye) but that is to be expected with an overview article like this. Image is appropriately licenced on Commons. BabelStone (talk) 23:07, 1 October 2011 (UTC)