basket-fish

Updated: May 18, 2025

One of them, a superb basket-fish, was not less than a foot and a half in diameter; and another, like a huge sunflower of reddish purple tint, with straight arms, thirty-seven in number, radiating from the disk, was of about the same size. Many beautiful little sea-urchins came up in the same dredging.

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence