Lookdown
Selene vomer
Turn sideways and this silver fish nearly disappears.
Lookdowns are deep-bodied silver jacks compressed almost as thin as dinner plates. Their strange sloping foreheads and mirror-like sides make them masters of changing visibility.
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- 1 copy
Ready-to-play deck
Open Ocean Deck
Includes 1 card featuring Lookdown.
Quick dive
Creature passport
- Home
- They school in warm western Atlantic coastal waters, bays, and estuaries.
- Favorite foods
- They pick small fishes, shrimp, crabs, and worms from the water and seafloor.
- Size check
- Up to about 19 in (48 cm)—roughly skateboard length
Tell-your-friends facts
Four wonderfully wild things
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Adults have an extremely steep, angular forehead above a low mouth.
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Tiny embedded scales make the body look smooth and almost scaleless.
- 3
Young lookdowns trail long fin rays that shorten as they grow.
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Lookdowns belong to the jack family alongside pompano and amberjacks.
Ocean superpower
Built to be amazing
A paper-thin body can reflect light or vanish when turned edge-on.
Junior scientist tip
What should I look for?
Find the shiny, wafer-thin body with a steep forehead and long curved fins.
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