For a long time, deep-sea fish with transparentthe head was perceived by ichthyologists not as a separate representative of the fish family, but as an ugly marine creature. It is possible that it fell into fishing networks earlier, but for the first time it was described in 1939. Then the scuba divers caught it in the abyss and tried to get it out of the water to study. But it turned out that a fish with a transparent head is unable to survive in other conditions. A transparent hollow ball covering her head bursts already in the upper layers of the water.
The fishermen called her big eyes for her big eyes. Indeed, a fish with a transparent head has eyes similar to two large cylinders compared to its body. This unique optical system
It is interesting that only in 2004, scientists-ichthyologists were able to study this species of fish in the world's oceans thanks to the appearance of new deep-water technology.
Their habitat is at a depth of two hundredfifty to two thousand five hundred meters. Scientists have already studied ten members of this family. It is remarkable that some of them met them in only a few copies. But the heroine of our story - a fish with a transparent head - is very numerous and widespread in the northern waters of the Pacific Ocean. Often find it in the waters that wash the banks of Kamchatka.
Исследования подтвердили это предположение.Fish with a transparent head is perfectly maneuvering while searching for food. If during the day she hunts for drifting mollusks, plunging to a depth of up to two kilometers, then at night can approach the surface of the water to twenty meters deep, where her favorite jellyfish live. A transparent spherical dome of the head allows the fish to continuously monitor, scanning the space. When an interesting object is found, it focuses on it and overtakes the prey.