With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses
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Barreleyes, also known as spookfish (a name also applied several species of chimaera), are small, unusual-looking deep-sea osmeriform fish comprising the family Opisthoproctidae. Found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans..
...All species have large, telescoping eyes which dominate and protrude from the skull, but enclosed within a large transparent dome of soft tissue. These eyes generally gaze upwards, but can also be directed forwards...
...The bioluminescent organs of Dolichopteryx and Opisthoproctus, together with the reflective soles of the latter, may serve as camouflage in the form of counterillumination. This predator avoidance strategy involves the use of ventral light to break up the fishes' silhouettes, so that (when viewed from below) they blend in with the ambient light from above...
This creature reminds me of some kind of organic spacecraft. There was a Sy-Fy show about one, can't recall it now.
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