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MR. S. P. AGHARKAR, lecturer on biology in the Elphinstone College, Bombay, who has been kind enough to undertake the collection of fresh-water invertebrates on behalf of the Indian Museum, has recently sent me several specimens of a medusa from small streams in the Western Ghats. Although they were taken at so great a distance from the west coast of India, it is important to note that these specimens were obtained from a river-system which flows across the Indian Peninsula and reaches the sea more than 500 miles away on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. Mr. Agharkar writes as follows:—
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ANNANDALE, N. The Occurrence of a Fresh-Water Medusa (Limnocnida) in Indian Streams. Nature 87, 144 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087144b0
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