anableps

See also: Anableps

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

anableps (plural anableps)

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.
   • 1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life:

     The most striking example is a family of small fish living in tropical American waters called the Poeciliidae among whom guppies, mosquito fish and the four-eyed anableps are best known.