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DR. CALMAN reports on the Pycnogons or sea-spiders collected by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910. The collection far exceeds that of any Antarctic expedition yet reported on, comprising no fewer than forty-four species, eleven of which are new. There seems no doubt that Antarctic seas are far richer in these quaint, slow-living creatures than any other area of the oceans. While most of the species were obtained in very small numbers, this was not always the case, for we read that two hundred specimens of Nymphon australe were obtained at a single station, and presumably at a single haul.
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Sea-Spiders and Feather-Stars 1 . Nature 97, 46–47 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097046b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/097046b0