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Glass eel

Hand holding a translucent glass eel.

Glass eel – the see-through stage before it becomes an elver.

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Rights: Courtesy of the Vertebrate Zoology Division; YPM ICH.023326. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; peabody.yale.edu. Photography by Gregory Watkins-Colwell.
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