Specimens
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Valuable scientific specimens, no matter who happens to own the land, should not be at the disposition of those who see only dollar signs in nature.
They could excavate
specimens
on private lands, and on public lands, too, under the supervision of scientists who know how to recover important information about what their surroundings, such as what the rocks say about the fossil when it was alive.
Original and unique
specimens
would be remanded to museums for permanent care, common or incomplete
specimens
still be bought and sold.
Accurately diagnosing a COVID-19 infection requires dedicated laboratory facilities to perform the genetic RT-PCR test on
specimens
of sputum or nasal swabs collected from suspected cases.
As Africa’s disease profile shifts further to noncommunicable diseases, I expect that smartphones increasingly will be used not only for consultations, but also to diagnose pathological
specimens
and medical images, as well as to gather and analyze patient data to prevent diseases before they manifest.
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge
specimens
of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration?
Maybe these people have gone without fresh meat for a long while, and in that case three healthy, well-built
specimens
like the professor, his manservant, and me ---""Get rid of those ideas, Mr. Land," I answered the harpooner.
The zoophyte branch offered some very unusual
specimens
from its two groups, the polyps and the echinoderms.
An excitable conchologist would surely have fainted dead away before other, more numerous glass cases in which were classified
specimens
from the mollusk branch.
Aside and in special compartments, strings of supremely beautiful pearls were spread out, the electric light flecking them with little fiery sparks: pink pearls pulled from saltwater fan shells in the Red Sea; green pearls from the rainbow abalone; yellow, blue, and black pearls, the unusual handiwork of various mollusks from every ocean and of certain mussels from rivers up north; in short, several
specimens
of incalculable worth that had been oozed by the rarest of shellfish.
Captain Nemo must have spent millions in acquiring these different specimens, and I was wondering what financial resources he tapped to satisfy his collector's fancies, when these words interrupted me:"You're examining my shells, professor?
I recognized the lower slopes of some magnificent rocks carpeted by the finest zoophyte specimens, and right off, I was struck by an effect unique to this medium.
Obviously, in the presence of these zoophyte and mollusk specimens, the fine lad was classifying his head off.
There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, sea tangle stretching out their young and edible shoots, twisting strings of kelp from the genus Nereocystis that bloomed to a height of fifteen meters, bouquets of mermaid's cups whose stems grew wider at the top, and a number of other open-sea plants, all without flowers.
That day they gathered up some unusual
specimens
from these fish-filled waterways: anglerfish whose comical movements qualify them for the epithet "clowns," black Commerson anglers equipped with their antennas, undulating triggerfish encircled by little red bands, bloated puffers whose venom is extremely insidious, some olive-hued lampreys, snipefish covered with silver scales, cutlass fish whose electrocuting power equals that of the electric eel and the electric ray, scaly featherbacks with brown crosswise bands, greenish codfish, several varieties of goby, etc.; finally, some fish of larger proportions: a one-meter jack with a prominent head, several fine bonito from the genus Scomber decked out in the colors blue and silver, and three magnificent tuna whose high speeds couldn't save them from our trawl.
Among other
specimens
from these waterways, our nets brought up some peacock-tailed flabellarian coral, polyps flattened into stylish shapes and unique to this part of the ocean.
I had to rest content with the various
specimens
of fish brought up by our nets.
Meanwhile, ignoring all these fine
specimens
of Papuan flora, the Canadian passed up the decorative in favor of the functional.
Sheer chance had placed me in the presence of the most valuable
specimens
of this zoophyte.
Then, as
specimens
of other genera, blowfish resembling a dark brown egg, furrowed with white bands, and lacking tails; globefish, genuine porcupines of the sea, armed with stings and able to inflate themselves until they look like a pin cushion bristling with needles; seahorses common to every ocean; flying dragonfish with long snouts and highly distended pectoral fins shaped like wings, which enable them, if not to fly, at least to spring into the air; spatula-shaped paddlefish whose tails are covered with many scaly rings; snipefish with long jaws, excellent animals twenty-five centimeters long and gleaming with the most cheerful colors; bluish gray dragonets with wrinkled heads; myriads of leaping blennies with black stripes and long pectoral fins, gliding over the surface of the water with prodigious speed; delicious sailfish that can hoist their fins in a favorable current like so many unfurled sails; splendid nurseryfish on which nature has lavished yellow, azure, silver, and gold; yellow mackerel with wings made of filaments; bullheads forever spattered with mud, which make distinct hissing sounds; sea robins whose livers are thought to be poisonous; ladyfish that can flutter their eyelids; finally, archerfish with long, tubular snouts, real oceangoing flycatchers, armed with a rifle unforeseen by either Remington or Chassepot: it slays insects by shooting them with a simple drop of water.
The second subgenus gave us some Didactylus
specimens
three to four decimeters long, streaked with yellow, their heads having a phantasmagoric appearance.
As for the first subgenus, it furnished several
specimens
of that bizarre fish aptly nicknamed "toadfish," whose big head is sometimes gouged with deep cavities, sometimes swollen with protuberances; bristling with stings and strewn with nodules, it sports hideously irregular horns; its body and tail are adorned with callosities; its stings can inflict dangerous injuries; it's repulsive and horrible.
Our dragnets brought up many
specimens
of polyps and echinoderms plus some unusual shells from the branch Mollusca.
Among other
specimens
in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange-hued lucina with circular shells, awl-shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, edible duck clams that feed the Hindu marketplace, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans that fashion one of the most luxuriant tree forms in this ocean.
How many new
specimens
of underwater flora and fauna I marveled at beneath the light of our electric beacon!
A few months later off the coast of Syria, I recaptured a few
specimens
of my fish, adorned with their telltale rings.
"No," I told Conseil, "that's no mermaid, it's an unusual creature of which only a few
specimens
are left in the Red Sea.
But while observing these different
specimens
of marine fauna, I didn't stop examining the long plains of Atlantis.
Chief among them were
specimens
of that dreadful cartilaginous genus that's divided into three subgenera numbering at least thirty-two species: striped sharks five meters long, the head squat and wider than the body, the caudal fin curved, the back with seven big, black, parallel lines running lengthwise; then perlon sharks, ash gray, pierced with seven gill openings, furnished with a single dorsal fin placed almost exactly in the middle of the body.
From these seas I'll also mention some unusual
specimens
of croakers, fish from the order Acanthopterygia, family Scienidea.
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