A single fish, one of the rarest animals that can be found, back in evolutionary time is possible to imagine the ancestors of this peculiar fish of the abyssal profundides the Macropinna microstoma is the only fish species of the genus Macropinna, barreleyes belonging to the family, is distinguished by its transparent head as opposed to the opacity the rest of the body, lives between 600 and 800 meters deep, 2 holes are dark on their ducts olfactory mouth, the eyes are the 2 green areas that are inside the skull transparent fish is also known as "Barreleye" or "Ojobarril" because it also has the peculiarity that their eyes are not spherical if cylindrical. The creature is known to science since 1939, when discovered by Chapman, but whether he had been photographed alive before 2004, the first drawings not showing his head clear, as this decomposed to be removed from the deep sea, has tubular eyes, very sensitive to light and its peculiarity is that they are capable of moving in all directions, while in other species tubular eyes are fixed and anchored to the skull, this allows you to expand the limited field of view typical of tubular eyes, but to move in all directions is necessary that the skull is transparent, this being the reason for this peculiar feature.
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