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ON cruises aboard RV Sarsia and RRS Discovery we have studied a number of features of oceanic animals to see how these change with habit and depth, and, as part of this work, we have used methods previously described1,2 to find the spectral absorption properties of lenses from the eyes of fish and cephalopods.
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DENTON, E., WARREN, F. Eyes of the Histioteuthidae. Nature 219, 400–401 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219400a0
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