Lookdown Fish
By: Hastings Witt

    The lookdown fish also known around the world as Selene vomer. This organism lives in shallow coastal waters, estuaries, and also near bridges and pilings where it is very sandy. When they are found near the ocean bottom they are almost always in packs of fish. This fish has a domain of eukaryote and a kingdom of animalia. Its phylum is chordata and its class is actinopterygii. The order is perciformes and the family is carangidae. Finally the genus is Selene and the species is vomer. You could split this organism into two parts and they will be mirror images of each other. That means that this organism has bilateral symmetry. It has a very forked tail and has long feathery fins on its back and belly. Also this fish is very slim and has silvery/shiny scales which reflect light, this is one of the fishes adaptations. That is a structural adaptation which means that the scales reflect by themselves and the fish doesn't do anything to make the scales shine. Another adaptation is that this fish can open its mouth very wide enough to eat a crab. This is an structural adaptation which means that it was born with that adaptation. One more adaptation is that its eyes don’t have eyelids it has an adipose eye, this is also a structural adaptation. An interesting fact about this organism is that when it is under stress it will make a grunting noise with its teeth and bladder. A fun fact is that this fish gets its common name from the way it appears to look down its nose, like a snobbish person. This organism eats fish, small crabs, shrimp, and worms. Its predators are humans and big fish. This organism is heterotrophic which means that it eats autotrophs and other heterotrophs. It is ectothermic which means that it is warm blooded.