A deep-water sole with three eyes has been received by the Auckland War Memorial Museum. It is the only example of a fish with a third eye known by the assistant-director and conchologist. Mr W. B. Powell, who said that all three eyes were fully developed. The specimen was given to the museum by Mr F. Johnston. It was caught in the Bay of Plenty by the fishing vessel Coastguard, when trawling.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 6
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