Brownsnout spookfish

The brownsnout spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes, is a species of barreleye in the family Opisthoproctidae.

A rare live brownsnout spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes , was caught last year between New Zealand and Samoa, by Professor Hans-Joachim Wagner, of Tuebingen University. More

The brownsnout spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes, is a species of barreleye in the family Opisthoproctidae. It is the only vertebrate known to employ a mirror, as opposed to a lens, to focus an image in its eyes. More

The brownsnout spookfish has been known for 120 years, but no live specimen had ever been captured. More

The brownsnout spookfish is now the first vertebrate to use mirrors to focus images in its eyes. More

The cool part is that the Brownsnout Spookfish is the only vertebrate to use a mirror to make an image in its eye. The top corneal opening of each eye is focused by the a mirror made of layers of reflective plates of guanine crystals. More

Brownsnout spookfishThe spookfish has a pair of mirrors (black) to focus light from below into its eyes A Pacific fish uses mirrors as well as lenses to help it see in the murky ocean depths, scientists have revealed. More

Have you ever heard of a brownsnout spookfish? It was first identified 120 years ago, but none had been found recently until last year. A scientist caught one off the coast of Tonga, a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. More

The brownsnout spookfish, which lives between 500 and 2,500 metres below sea-level, may have evolved its reflective eye to more easily spot predators in the light-starved deep ocean. More

The brownsnout spookfish has been identified as the only backboned creature known to use mirrors rather than lenses to get images into focus. More

The brownsnout spookfish has been known for 120 years, but no live specimen had ever been captured. Last year, one was caught off Tonga, by scientists from Tuebingen University, Germany. More

The brownsnout spookfish, which lives at a depth of more than 3,000ft, has been identified as the only vertebrate to have developed mirrors rather than lenses to focus images. More

Four-eyed brownsnout spookfish comes out of the deep = * Lewis Smith * From: The Times * January 08, 2009 12:00AM * Increase Text Size More

The brownsnout spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes, has ordinary eyes with lenses pointing upwards, but alongside them are downward-looking eyes fitted with tiny mirrored plates. More

The brownsnout spookfish, which lives at a depth of more than 3,000ft, has been identified as the only vertebrate ever found to use mirrors, rather than lenses, to focus light in its eyes. Credit: Dr. Tammy Frank, Habor Branch Oceanographic Institution. More

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