Barreleye facts: the dome-headed deep sea fish | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover some deep sea fish with amazing eyes! Music by Abysmii: https://www.youtube.com/user/Abysmii You can learn more on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/animalfactfiles Facebook - https://facebook.com/animalfactfiles/ --- We always do what we can to be as accurate as possible, but we're only human; if you catch a mistake please let us know and provide a link for verification! --- All images, videos and sound effects used herein are 1) public domain, 2) used under a Creative Commons license*, 3) used with the express permission of the copyright holder, or 4) used under the parameters of Fair Use law. Credits via Flickr: Yang Maolin - https://www.flickr.com/photos/yang-maolin/17012955887; https://www.flickr.com/photos/yang-maolin/17032636638 Ocean Syrup - https://www.flickr.com/photos/156637551@N02/47240263991; https://oceansyrup.com/why-pacific-barreleye-transparent/ Credits via Wiki Users: Lusanaherandraton - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BarreleyeModelNHMLondon.jpg Other attributions: Mr.Nunez - https://vimeo.com/54685364 FreedivingUAE - https://vimeo.com/104218459 Adrian Flynn, in Partridge et al 2014 Proc. R. Soc. B 281: 20133223 - http://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/family/49 Poulsen JY, Sado T, Hahn C, Byrkjedal I, Moku M, Miya M (2016) Preservation Obscures Pelagic Deep-Sea Fish Diversity: Doubling the Number of Sole-Bearing Opisthoproctids and Resurrection of the Genus Monacoa (Opisthoproctidae, Argentiniformes). PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159762. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159762 Websites used for research collection: https://www.mbari.org/barreleye-fish-with-tubular-eyes-and-transparent-head/ http://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/family/49 http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.php?ID=85 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125512&allchildren=1 https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=162099#null https://www.britannica.com/animal/spookfish https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/fishtree_03 http://whaletimes.org/?page_id=2906 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10228-005-0329-8 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0159762 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2013.3223 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698913002162 *you can find information about all the different types of CC licenses here: https://creativecommons.org/ **changes were made to the original Transcript: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/AnimalFactFiles

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