{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{speciesbox | image = Winteria telescopa.png | image_caption = Binocular fish ''(Winteria telescopa)'' | parent_authority = A. B. Brauer, 1901 | genus = Winteria (fish) | species = telescopa | authority = A. B. Brauer, 1901 }}
'''''Winteria telescopa''''', the '''binocular fish''', or '''jelly-faced spookfish''',<ref>{{cite book|first1=Tim| last1=Flannery| first2=Peter| last2=Schouten| title= Astonishing Animals: Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit| location= New York |publisher=Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press |date= 2004|page= 187|isbn=9780802194176}}</ref> is a species of barreleye found in oceans around the world at depths from {{convert|400|to|2500|m|ft}}. This species grows to a length of {{convert|15|cm|in}} SL. Unlike most barreleyes, this fish has more forward-facing eyes, but it still has the dome.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Froese |first=Rainer |last2=Pauly |first2=Daniel |date=November 1994 |title=Fishbase as a tool for comparing the life history patterns of flatfish |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0077-7579(94)90001-9 |journal=Netherlands Journal of Sea Research |volume=32 |issue=3-4 |pages=235–239 |doi=10.1016/0077-7579(94)90001-9 |issn=0077-7579|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Also W. telescopa has been observed being able to rotate its eyes within a trait only shared with Macropinna microstoma.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=de Busserolles |first=Fanny |last2=Fogg |first2=Lily |last3=Cortesi |first3=Fabio |last4=Marshall |first4=Justin |date=2020-10-01 |title=The exceptional diversity of visual adaptations in deep-sea teleost fishes |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1084952119301041 |journal=Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology |series=Vertebrate vision: Lessons from non-model species |volume=106 |pages=20–30 |doi=10.1016/j.semcdb.2020.05.027 |issn=1084-9521|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
The fish was featured in the documentary series ''The Blue Planet''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}<!--There is a clip of it on Youtube narrated by Sir Attenborough but you should wait for the BBC to upload it themselves.-->
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Category:Opisthoproctidae Category:Taxa named by August Brauer Category:Fish described in 1901
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