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Picture No 10005541
Date 1883
Description Fishing for Pyrosoma
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A man and woman in a boat, fishing for Pyrosoma -- the woman holds up a colony of these tiny fish, held together by gelatinous matter. Pyrosoma is a class of the Thaliacean family, forming an unattached floating colony emitting strong luminosity, common in tropical seas.
Source unnamed artist in Harper's Magazine, 1883
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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