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WITH reference to Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson's letter on this subject in NATURE of May 30 (p. 321), it may be worth while to record that the British Museum (Natural History) has just received fine specimens of the common lobster (Homarus gammarus) and the spiny lobster or crawfish (Palinurus vulgaris) from Smyrna, through the kindness of Capt. J. R. Westcott, of the Westcott and Laurance (Ellerman's) Line, Ltd. The existence of both species in the eastern Mediterranean is thus confirmed, but it would be of great interest, as Prof. Thompson points out, to determine the limits of their range and their relative abundance in various localities.
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CALMAN, W. Lobsters in the Ægean. Nature 89, 529 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089529a0
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