Image of Black eelpout
Description:
This eelpout, about 7 cm long, swims about in a darkened, chilled aquarium. When illuminated, It curls up in a ball and hangs motionless in the water. To a predator it may appear too large to swallow, or perhaps it resembles a jellyfish with stinging cells.
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- Zoarcidae (eelpouts)
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- Melanostigma pammelas (Black eelpout)
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- 2006 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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