Siphonophore or string jellyfish, Apolemia contorta, from the Mediterranean coast off Nice. Apolemie contournee. Zooid, or floating colony of polyps and medusoids. Meduse de la cote de Nice. Chromolithograph by Pierre Lackerbauer after Carl Vogt from Alfred Fredol’s Le Monde de la Mer, the World of the Sea, edited by Olivier Fredol, Librairie Hachette et. Cie., Paris, 1881. Alfred Fredol was the pseudonym of French zoologist and botanist Alfred Moquin-Tandon, 1804-1863.

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