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A SPECIMEN of the remarkable hydroid genus Branchiocerianthus was caught on July 6, on muddy sand at about 210–240 m. depth in the inner part of the Hardangerfjord on the Norwegian west coast. Previously this genus was known only from the Pacific (Japan, northern Pacific, Gulf of Panama), the Indian Ocean (Somali coast, coasts of Oman and Baluchistan), the Mediterranean (Naples), and the Atlantic (Davis Strait). The new record is thus the first from the eastern Atlantic.
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BRATTSTRÖM, H. A New Species of Branchiocerlanthus from a Norwegian Fjord. Nature 178, 1359–1360 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781359c0
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