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EXPERIMENTS have been made on board R.V. Sarsia with the fresh retinæ of four species of deep-sea fish caught in the Bay of Biscay. These species, Stomias boa (Risso), Flagellostomias sp., Argyropelecus olfersii (Cuvier) and Myctophum punctatum Rafinesque, are often caught around 500 m.1, a depth close to that at which the human eye ceases to see the light of day2.
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DENTON, E., WARREN, F. Visual Pigments of Deep-Sea Fish. Nature 178, 1059 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781059a0
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