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A NUMBER of unrelated groups of planktonic animals have developed the curious arrangement of upwardly directed eyes combined with downwardly directed photophores; this has been described and discussed by Hardy1, who has suggested a number of possible explanations.
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Hardy, A. C., “The Open Sea”, Part 1, “The World of Plankton”, Chap. 13 (Collins, 1956).
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COLMAN, J. A Possible Function of Planktonic Photophores. Nature 185, 112 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185112a0
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