Spookfish Uses Mirrors For Eyes

Kligat writes "The brownsnout spookfish in the Pacific is the first known vertebrate to use mirrors to focus light into its eyes. Despite being a species known for 120 years, this was not known until a live specimen was caught between New Zealand and Samoa last year. The fish lives over 1,000 meters below the ocean's surface, so the light focused by the mirrors' perfectly curved surfaces provides a major advantage over other fish."

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So, what's the current count of times eyes evolved

[jafiwam]

I just stumbled around trying to find a catalog of the number of types and design details of the number of times eyes have evolved.

Wiki has it at 6. Is this 7?

Re:More importantly

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

How does it taste?

Come on! We're mostly Anglophone's here. What we really want to know is:

How does it taste deep fried?

Re:So, what's the current count of times eyes evol

[Skadet]

And the corresponding link to what you were talking about... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye#Types_of_eye

Re:So, what's the current count of times eyes evol

[Anonymous Coward]

None of them have ever evolved Fresnel eyes?
That seems a little strange, i'd have expected something similar to have evolved by now, even if it used several separate lenses with holes to create it.
In fact, a zoom based eye as well.
Come evolution, stop being lazy!

Oh well, by the time it happens, humans would have already replicated both with technology.
I can't wait till i have a 10x zoom eye. Now i don't need those binoculars to spy on my hot neighbor.

Re:That's Spooky!

[samurphy21]

I suspect that any fish meant to live 1000m deep would undergo explosive decompression on being brought to the surface, eyeballs first.

Re:So, what's the current count of times eyes evol

[mikael]

There is also a type of fish that have telescopic eyes:

The telescope fish

Telescopefish

I wonder if human bred species should get a mention:

Celestial Eye Goldfish

Bubble Eye Goldfish