anableps
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See also: Anableps
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the genus name.
Noun[edit]
anableps (plural anableps)
- Any of the genus Anableps of "four-eyed" fishes (having eyes raised above the top of the head and divided into two parts) found in brackish waters in northern South America and Trinidad.
- 1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life:
- The most striking example is a family of small fish living in tropical American waters called the Poeciliidae among whom guppies, mosquito fish and the four-eyed anableps are best known.