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Fire in the Sea
Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
by David A. Mckee, Henry "Hank" Compton, Michael Barrett, Larry J. Hyde, Professor Mark Anderson, Jennifer Hardell, Mark Anderson
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2014 by Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62349-031-7, ISBN: 1-62349-031-6
"The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Rockport Marine Lab was present on some of the earliest Gulf of Mexico cruises on which these fishes were collected for the ..."
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