anableps

American

[an-uh-bleps] / ˈæn əˌblɛps /

noun

four-eyed fish.

anableps British

/ ˈænəˌblɛps /

noun

any of various cyprinodont fishes constituting the genus Anableps, which includes the four-eyed fishes

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Etymology

Origin of anableps

1777; < New Latin, the genus name, coinage based on Greek anablépein to look up, equivalent to ana- ana- + blépein to see

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A membraneous fold, enclosing the bulb of the eye, stretches across the pupil, dividing the visual apparatus into the upper and lower half; a curious formation, suited to the peculiar habits of the anableps.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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