Clearly superior!

Fiction writers have long fantasised about the concept of invisibility cloaks, but for many fish being completely transparent is a normal way of life. Neale Monks sheds some light on the phenomenon.

NEALE MONKS

TROPICAL Transparent fishes Clearly superior! Fiction writers have long fantasised about the concept of invisibility cloaks, but for many fish being completely transparent is a normal way of life. Neale Monks sheds some light on the phenomenon. NEALE MONKS Neale is a longstanding aquatics author with a particular passion for brackish water species. ALAMY HIDING IN plain sight is especially useful if you live in open water where there’s nothing to hide behind. Transparency has evolved many times among aquatic animals, not just among fish, but also things like jellyfish, crustaceans, even squids. Quite a few fish families include species that are transparent, in both freshwater and the sea. Among the best known to biologists are the larval forms of eels and their relatives. These are the famous leptocephali larvae,…

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Practical Fishkeeping United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2022

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