The pink four inch fish’s distinctive eyespot, or ocellus – which serves to confuse predators – is dark black with a “pale whitish-rose ring” around it, researchers sa…
Scientists discovered a five new species of cusk-eel fish in the West Pacific Ocean, one of them having a “rather unique” distinctive eyespots on their fin which extends to their body,The pink 4-inch fish’s distinctive eyespot, or ocellus — which serves to confuse predators — is black with a “pale whitish-rose ring” around it, researchers said.
The specimen also has an elongated body and “tapering tail” with a mouth full of “many small, pointed” teeth, along with dark-brown bands across its scaly body, according to the article.More than two dozen other Neobythites species have a dorsal fin, which in some cases extends to the body, but the new discovery marked a first, according to the study.
“We are not aware of any other examples in fishes where a similar [eyespot] structure exists,” study authors Franz Uibiein and Jorgen Nielsen wrote. The “highly conspicuous feature … requires further attention from an evolutionary-ecology point of view,” they added.The five other new species discovered are named
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