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DURING the Franco–British–American expedition to the Comoro Islands (January 1–March 28, 1972), two coelacanths were taken by native fishermen. This report of the visual pigment is based on measurements made on a quarter of one retina of the second fish, an immature female, 0.86 m long1.
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DARTNALL, H. Visual Pigment of the Coelacanth. Nature 239, 341–342 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239341a0
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