Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen

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An albino ratfish pure white except for pale green eyes was caught off Whidbey Island during sampling for a University of Washington project to bettter understand the food web in Puget Sound. In the tray below are typical Puget Sound ratfish dark b ...
An albino ratfish – pure white except for pale green eyes – was caught off Whidbey Island during sampling for a University of Washington project to bettter understand the food web in Puget Sound. In the tray below are typical Puget Sound ratfish, dark brown with white spots, to blend in with muddy sediments, and bright green eyes. Credit: University of Washington

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish collection and a fish and wildlife biologist with more than 20 years of sampling fish in Puget Sound.


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