. Science of the sea. An elementary handbook of practical oceanography for travellers, sailors, and yachtsmen. Fig. 138.—Glaucus (Blake). i86 THE FLOATING ANIMALS like material. Others drop the tail and notochord onassuming the adult form ; of these Pyrosoma (Fig. 149),brilliantly luminous, as its name fire-body implies,is a colony of animals embedded in a common cylinderof jelly, mouths outwards. A solitary form, Doliolum,. Fig. 140. Fig. 141. Fig. 142. Fig. 143.

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