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Science 1 May 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3931, pp. 586 - 588
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3931.586
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Aerial Vision: Unique Adaptation in an Intertidal Fish

Jeffrey B. Graham 1 and Richard H. Rosenblatt 1

1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037

Mnierpes macrocephalus, a clinid fish of rocky shores of the eastern tropical Pacific, makes frequent terrestrial sojourns. The normal fish eye is myopic in air because of curvature of the cornea. This is overcome in Mnierpes by the presence of two flattened corneal surfaces.


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