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Flashlight fish - These fish have a symbiotic bacterium

Flashlight fish - These fish have a symbiotic bacterium that produces the light as a by product of metabolism (Photoblepharon palpebratus). Banda Sea. Indonesia. They are totally nocturnal living by day in deep caves

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