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Four-eyed Fish
Anableps
The four-eyed fishes are a genus, Anableps, of fishes in the family Anablepidae. They have eyes raised above the top of the head and divided in two different parts, so that they can see below and above the water surface at the same time.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
Largescale Four-eyed Fish
speciesAnableps anableps
Finescale Four-eyed Fish
speciesAnableps microlepis
Pacific Four-eyed Fish
speciesAnableps dowii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 86429.