Ecological animal geography; an authorized, Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage ecologicalanimal00hess Year: 1937 Fig. 71.—Telescopic eyes of deep-sea fishes of various families: a, Argyro- pelecus affinis; b, Gigantura chuni; c, Winteria telescopa. After Brauer. tions of the animals of the lighted benthal have been discussed above (p. 188). They are extremely varied, in correlation with the variety of background on which the animals live. The colorations of pelagic ani- mals in the lighted zone are much less varied
Ecological animal geography; an authorized, Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage ecologicalanimal00hess Year: 1937 Fig. 71.—Telescopic eyes of deep-sea fishes of various families: a, Argyro- pelecus affinis; b, Gigantura chuni; c, Winteria telescopa. After Brauer. tions of the animals of the lighted benthal have been discussed above (p. 188). They are extremely varied, in correlation with the variety of background on which the animals live. The colorations of pelagic ani- mals in the lighted zone are much less varied. The plankton animals are in the main transparent, in part owing to the high water content Fig. 72.—Bathypterois longicauda from 4600-m. depth in the south Pacific. After Gunther. of their bodies. For the rest, blue is the dominant color, as in the siphonophore Velella, on the edge of the disk of the medusa Rhizo- stoma, in the copepod Anomalocera, the decapod Virbius, and in the
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