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Flashlight fish (dead)

This is an actual (and VERY pickeled!) dead specimen of a deep-sea Flashlight fish; the lower eyelid shows the glands that house the bioluminescent bacteria that makes it glow in the dark in those depths. Definitely something you don't see every day, but I guess just another day at the California Academy of Sciences!

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Uploaded on April 9, 2013
Taken on July 27, 2012