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Mudskipper

Gobiidae

Photo by Radha
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Field Notes

Description:

Mudskippers have close set eyes that are movable. They pull either one or both their eyes into their heads and push them out in a brisk motion, as fast as one can bat their eyelids. It was fascinating to watch their eyes and the things they could do with them!

Notes:

Mudskippers are beautiful creatures. They have huge, bulbous, protuberant eyes on the top of their blunt heads, irises with varied colors -Turquoise, Yellow, Green, Red, Ochre, Black, Gold.

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Comments (3)
Radha
@Marta -- Yes, it is very interesting to see them do this :)
The MnMs
In the right side, the fish has its eyes inside the head: very nice and interesting behavior! I saw these type of fishes before but had not noticed this trick :-)

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