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English: Contemporary drawing of the hoax "fish" Ompax spatuloides by Karl Theodor Staiger, director of the Brisbane Museum, Australia, and sent to Francis de Laporte de Castelnau in 1879, who went on to give the "species" a scientific description.
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Source http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/07-08/fishiest-fish/
Author Karl Theodor Staiger (d. 1888)

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