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Photograph is a portrait of a Hellbender "Cryptobranchus alleganiensis". Hellbenders are totally subsurface aquatic amphibians that breathe by absorbing oxygen from the water through their skin. Like all amphibians, the health of  the local ecology can be gauged by their population. Camera lens was focused on the eye with depth @~7 ffw.