# Fish wearing glasses, aside from Don Knots

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Jun 1998*

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### William H. Ansley
*16 Jun 1998, 11:27*

> The "Terrestrial fish" Marsch mentions exist. I can't remember either their
> common or scientific name at the moment, unfortunately.

Just for the sake of completeness, I felt compelled to post this.

They are called the four-eyed fish (Ananbleps species). (Duh!) It wasn't
too hard to find this out when I looked for "four-eyed fish" instead of
"fish with double-pupiled, segemented eyes". They live in the rivers of
eastern South America and grow to be a foot long. My description was pretty
accurate; I'll just add the detail that their eyes are on the top of their
head, like a frog, so only the top half of their eyes stick out of the
water.

If you want to keep some in an aquariums, check this out:

http://www2.gasou.edu/student/gsi01344/bracfaq5.html

William Ansley

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