On a new species of cephalodiscus (C. nigrescens) from the Antarctic Ocean
The material here described was dredged by the “Discovery,” on January 13, 1902, in 100 fathoms, off coulman Island, near Victoria Land, in the antarctic Ocean, and was brought home with rest of the collections, arriving at the Natural History Museum in September of last year. It had not been possib...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1905
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1905.0036 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.1905.0036 |
| Summary: | The material here described was dredged by the “Discovery,” on January 13, 1902, in 100 fathoms, off coulman Island, near Victoria Land, in the antarctic Ocean, and was brought home with rest of the collections, arriving at the Natural History Museum in September of last year. It had not been possible for the naturalists on the expedition to examine this organism in the living state, and its nature had not been determined until it came into my hands. The colony is massive, the test nearly transparent, somewhat opalescent, and with a slight yellowish-brown tint. The largest piece in the collection measures roughly 190 by 115 mm and has twelve branches. This piece is reproduced of natural size in Plate 8. The largest single branch is 90 mm. Long and 32 mm. Across. The branches are roughly cylindrical in shape, the larger ones ones are blunt-ended, the smaller ones taper towards their extremities. |
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