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What is an anableps?

What is an anableps? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of the genus Anableps of "four-eyed" fishes (having eyes raised above the top of the head and divided into two parts) found in brackish waters in northern South America and Trinidad.
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Its name is anableps, but in all probability it does not wish the fact to be generally known.
Anableps tetrophthalmus, the four-eyed fish, inhabits the rivers of Mexico and northern South America.
Any other fish or mammal would have been just as likely as anableps to begin the development of a bifocal eye.
In two genera of fishes, anableps, Dialommus, the cornea is divided by a horizontal partition into two parts.

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