Marine invertebrates

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Photographs of marine invertebrates, many taken on the shore.

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Field photographs from the AMNH Department of Animal Behavior. Mostly of fish and marine life with slides of graphs and charts.

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Mostly field photographs of marine life and native people and their habitats taken at the Red Sea Marine Biological Station, Red Sea, Caroline Islands, Palau Islands, Micronesia, Guam and Honolulu, Hawaii. Also includes images of a pyramid, Malayan Tapir in Cairo Zoo and Roman Quarry at Mons Claudianus. Few pictures of buildings in Egypt. Also included are 7 slides of sea urchins, sea anemone and marine sandworms in the United States.

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Photographs of marine invertebrates and sea animals, such as sharks, sea horses, shellfish and fish.

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Studio photographs of marine invertebrates, shells.

Scope and Contents Artwork of marine invertebrates made by Chris Olsen. Most of the illustrations are field watercolor sketches of coral and sponge specimens from Tarpon Springs, Florida, done in 1941 and 1942. Includes herbarium specimen from Tarpon Springs, Florida which may or may not have been collected by Olsen.The drawings of invertebrates from Tarpon Springs seem to have been created at a later time in the lab as they all date after the actual expedition. Each drawing notes when the...

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Close up photographs of fish and marine invertebrates, some taken in the AMNH Hall of Ocean Life. Some animals include starfish, lungfish (coelacanth), seahorse, octopus, eel, coral, barnacles, goldfish, shrimp, and a man-trap clam. Includes images of models.