Shrimp Gallery

Flookborough shrimp trailers, Morecambe Bay

Flookborough, Morecambe Bay, Cumbria. Shrimp fishermens trailers with ropes and shrimp nets. The trailers are towed by tractors at low tide Date: 1993

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1990s, 1993, 90s, Bay, Cartmel, Cumbria, Early, Equipment, Fishing, Flats, Flookborough, Gear, Light, Morecambe, Morning, Mud, Nets, Nineties, Peninsula, Ropes, Shrimp, Shrimping, Side, Towing, Trailer, Trailers, Trolley, Wetlands

Bioluminescent Sea-fireflies (Vargula hilgendorfii) producing a bright blue light

Bioluminescent Sea-fireflies (Vargula hilgendorfii) producing a bright blue light. The light is produced by mixing two chemicals together in the presence of oxygen and is for mating displays or defence. Tomonoura, Inland Sea, Japan

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Animal, Animalia, Arthropod, Arthropods, Asia, Biodiversity Hotspot, Bioluminescence, Blue, Colour, Crustacean, Crustracea, Cypridina Hildendorfii, Cypridinidae, Dark, East Asia, Invertebrate, Japan, Marine, Myodocopida, Night, Ocean, Ostracod, Ostracoda, Pacific Ocean, Saltwater, Sands, Sea Firefly, Sea Of Japan, Seed Shrimp, Vargula, Vargula Hilgendorfii, Water, Wildlife

Spiny lobster, Panulirus homarus, and mantis

Spiny lobster, Panulirus homarus, and mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis. . Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Cignozzi, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780

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