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English: flashlight fish

French translation: Photoblepharon palpebratus







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English term or phrase:flashlight fish
French translation:Photoblepharon palpebratus
Entered by:Nathalie Diu
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Social Sciences - Fisheries
English term or phrase: flashlight fish
This is a deep-sea fish that produces its own light (bio-luminescent).
Many thanks for your help
Nathalie Diu
France
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Monique Laville: 8:02am Mar 16, 2005: Merci pour le lien Orianne. Vetofish fournit un extraordinaire atlas des poissons. -

Photoblepharon palpebratus
Explanation:
BIOLUMINESCENCE : Structures des organes lumineux
... Parmi les poissons lumineux littoraux; l'Anomalops kaptotron et le Photoblepharon palpebratus, poissons béryciphormes, se rencontrent dans les mers ...
nicolem.chez.tiscali.fr/pg_biolum/chap2.html - 39k -

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Photoblepharon palpebratus - definition of Photoblepharon ... - [ Traduire cette page ]Noun 1. Photoblepharon palpebratus - fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye Synonyms: flashlight fish.
dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Photoblepharon_palpebratus - 14k
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Francis MARC
Lithuania
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Photoblepharon palpebratus

Explanation:
BIOLUMINESCENCE : Structures des organes lumineux
... Parmi les poissons lumineux littoraux; l'Anomalops kaptotron et le Photoblepharon palpebratus, poissons béryciphormes, se rencontrent dans les mers ...
nicolem.chez.tiscali.fr/pg_biolum/chap2.html - 39k -

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Note added at 5 mins (2005-03-15 08:04:22 GMT)
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Photoblepharon palpebratus - definition of Photoblepharon ... - [ Traduire cette page ]Noun 1. Photoblepharon palpebratus - fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye Synonyms: flashlight fish.
dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Photoblepharon_palpebratus - 14k


Francis MARC
Lithuania
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree irat56
20 mins

neutral Monique Laville: et pourquoi pas anomalops katophon? Voir fisbase: http://ichtyonb1.mnhn.fr/ComNames/CommonNameSearchList.cfm
1 hr

agree orianne76: nom commun : soldat anglais, voir lien suivant : http://www.vetofish.com/modules/fish/fiche.php?genre=Photobl...
3 hrs
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