Carl Chun Quote

Among all the marvels of coloration which the animals of the deep sea exhibited to us nothing be even distantly compared with the hues of these [internal] organs [of the Thaumatolampus diadema ]. One would think that the body was adorned with a diadem of brilliant gems.

Quoted in Sir Alister Hardy, Great Waters, Chapter 9 (p. 220), Harper & Row Publishers. 1967