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File:FMIB 36167 When rolled over or otherwise disturbed, the Cotton-fish, or Beche de Mer (Holothurea fusco-cinerea) ejects sticky white threats.jpeg

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English: A. R. McCulloch
Description
English: When rolled over or otherwise disturbed, the Cotton-fish, or Beche de Mer (Holothurea fusco-cinerea) ejects sticky white threats, which apparently serve as anchor lines, and enable it to recover its position
  • Subject: Photography of fishes, Trepang, Holothurians
  • Tag: Fish
Date 1924
date QS:P571,+1924-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
English: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
Accession number
36167
Source/Photographer
English: McCulloch, Allan R. (1924) Fishes and the Movies, Australian Museum Magazine, v.2, 1924, Sydney, Australia: Australian Museum, p. 108
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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