. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 27 SCIENTISTS SEE RARE MARINE ANIMAL WITH SPECIAL CAMERA "In the photograph, it looks like an exotic flower growing alone on a moonlit desert, but it isn't, ' explains Water Jahn, the Naval Oceanographic Office scientist who used a deep-sea strobe camera to take the photo, "It's actually a very primitive animal," The creature was photographed on the sea floor 15,900 feet below the USNS 'Kane' when. the NOO-controiled oceanographic survey ship stopped at a survey point about 350 miles west of the African coast. Long-Stemm
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 27 SCIENTISTS SEE RARE MARINE ANIMAL WITH SPECIAL CAMERA "In the photograph, it looks like an exotic flower growing alone on a moonlit desert, but it isn't, ' explains Water Jahn, the Naval Oceanographic Office scientist who used a deep-sea strobe camera to take the photo, "It's actually a very primitive animal," The creature was photographed on the sea floor 15,900 feet below the USNS 'Kane' when. the NOO-controiled oceanographic survey ship stopped at a survey point about 350 miles west of the African coast. Long-Stemmed Polyp To determine "what type of animal," Jahn sent his photo to marine biologists, who iden- tified it as a member of Phylum Cnideria (Ceolenterate), class Anthozoa, subclass Alcyonaria, Order Pennatulacea, family Um- bellulidae. That n\eans it is a long-stemmed polyp--a multicelled animal akinto hybroids, sea anemones, and living coral. The biologists told Jahn it was the first time they had seenthis variety actually living on the ocean bottom, although they knew it Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries. [Washington] : National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt. Print. Off. ]
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