Talk:Anoplogaster cornuta

A fact from Anoplogaster cornuta appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 May 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that juvenile and adult common fangtooth (adult pictured) look so unlike each other that at one time they were thought to be different species?

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Picture of juvenile?[edit]

I think the article would benefit from a photograph of a juvenile fangtooth. BearGlyph (talk) 12:19, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ultra-black[edit]

This is one of the species mentioned prominently, and pictured, in Ouellette, Jennifer (2020-07-18). "Scientists unlocked the secret of how these ultrablack fish absorb light". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2020-07-18. Others are Idiacanthus antrostomus and Poromitra crassiceps, though "Osborn and her colleagues found these pigment patterns in 16 distantly related species." Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (09:54 Sun 19, AEST) 23:54, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for updating this article, User:Cwmhiraeth, you worded it better than I could have done.

Chiswick Chap beat me to it and created Camouflage#Ultra-blackness. Unfortunately the researchers couldn't measure reflectance curves for A. cornuta, but did perform microscopy. [1][2]

—Pelagic ( messages · Z ) – (23:52 Sun 26, AEST) 13:52, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]