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flashlight fish

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Noun1.flashlight fish - fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye
Photoblepharon palpebratus
acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
2.flashlight fish - fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico
anomalops
genus Anomalops - type genus of the family Anomalopidae
acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays


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