The Spook Fish's Eyes

This creature is the only known member of their genus but they are part of the barrel life family o pisto prok today home to the spook fishes as they're called. The most striking aspect of these fishes when first viewed in situ is the transparent cow-like shield that covers the top of the head and the prominent tubular eyes inside the shield is a tough flexible entegament that attaches to dorsal and medial scales behind the head, and to the broad transparent subocular bones that protect the eyes laterally. This fragile structure is typically lost or collapsed during capture by nets and it has not been previously described or figured beneath the shield isA fluid-filled chamber that surrounds and protects the