Definitions

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  • noun A small, deep-sea osmeriform fish of the family Opisthoproctidae, with barrel-shaped, tubular eyes which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey.

Etymologies

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barrel +‎ eye

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Examples

  • Using remotely piloted robots operating 2,600 feet deep, discovered two surprising aspects of the "barreleye" fish named Macropinna microstoma.

    TierneyLab 2009

  • Using remotely piloted robots operating 2,600 feet deep, discovered two surprising aspects of the "barreleye" fish named Macropinna microstoma.

    TierneyLab 2009

  • Using remotely piloted robots operating 2,600 feet deep, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered two surprising aspects of the "barreleye" fish named Macropinna microstoma.

    TierneyLab 2009

  • "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light.

    Spero News 2009

  • "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light.

    Spero News 2009

  • "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light.

    Spero News 2009

  • This is the Pacific barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma), and as you can see, it has a see-through head.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • But the barreleye fish for its tubular, or barrel-shaped, eyes lost its eyelids even as its eyes were bulking up and becoming more powerful.

    Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Fish shows the value of keeping a clear head 2009

  • We see the barreleye fish, whose eyes extend from its head on tubes, Anableps anableps, a fish with four eyes, and the mantis fish whose color vision is so acute, Dr. Knowlton writes, that it makes what we see look like it is "practically in black and white."

    NYT > Home Page By CORNELIA DEAN 2011

  • The barreleye fish eats jellyfish and has rotating eyes within its transparent head to protect them from stings.

    Spero News 2009

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  • "The barreleye lives more than 2,000 feet (600 meters) beneath the ocean’s surface, where the water is almost inky."

    - Macropinna microstoma, delightnature.com, 17 August 2009.

    August 23, 2009

  • It's a fish.

    January 2, 2012