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antarcticus Baylis, Amphiporus spinosus Burger, and A . marioni
Hubrecht .
At our present stage of knowledge it may well be premature to
discuss the relationships of the Antarctic fauna, since ranges in the
Southern Ocean are obviously poorly known. There is obviously a
strong tendency for the common Antarctic species to have wide geographical ranges, extending to the Falklands, Kerguelen and often to
other Subantarctic Islands such as Macquarie Island.
One species which could well be the basis for an individual study is
Lineus corrugatus. Two cases of brooding in Antarctic nemerteans
described by Joubin (1914) are noted in more detail in the section on
egg brooding.
G. Echinoderida
Species of the rather poorly known group Echinoderida have been
described from the Antarctic. Zelinka (1 913) described Echinoderes
ehlersi and Campyloderes vanhoeffeni from material collected by the
German South Polar expedition. Lang (1949) described three new
species, Echinoderes pilosa, Pycnophyes odhneri, and P. sculptus from
South Georgia from material collected by the Swedish Antarctic
Expedition.
H . Polycheta
Hartman (1964, 1967) presented very useful summaries of the
history of investigations into Antarctic polychaetes. The first benthic
Antarctic species were collected by the British expedition under Sir
James Clark Ross in the Erebus and Terror in 1841, and described by
Baird (1865, 1870). McIntosh (1885) described some 62 species taken
by the Challenger off the Queen Mary Coast of Antarctica. The report
on the polychaetes collected by the Belgica in 1897-99 was not written
up till much later by Fauvel (1936). Practically every expedition to
visit Antarctica collected quantities of polychaete worms and most of
the expedition reports have contained contributions on the group.
Ehlers (1913) wrote up the polychaetes from the German deep sea
expedition in the Valdivia, Willey (1 902) the results from the Southern
Cross and Ehlers (1913) again the material collected on the German
South Polar expedition in the Gauss. The results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition appeared in a series of papers by various
authors from 1911 to 1953. Ehlers (1912) again was responsible
for the results of the British National Expedition in the Discovery.
R. E. DELL
antarcticus Baylis, Amphiporus spinosus Burger, and A . marioni
Hubrecht .
At our present stage of knowledge it may well be premature to
discuss the relationships of the Antarctic fauna, since ranges in the
Southern Ocean are obviously poorly known. There is obviously a
strong tendency for the common Antarctic species to have wide geographical ranges, extending to the Falklands, Kerguelen and often to
other Subantarctic Islands such as Macquarie Island.
One species which could well be the basis for an individual study is
Lineus corrugatus. Two cases of brooding in Antarctic nemerteans
described by Joubin (1914) are noted in more detail in the section on
egg brooding.
G. Echinoderida
Species of the rather poorly known group Echinoderida have been
described from the Antarctic. Zelinka (1 913) described Echinoderes
ehlersi and Campyloderes vanhoeffeni from material collected by the
German South Polar expedition. Lang (1949) described three new
species, Echinoderes pilosa, Pycnophyes odhneri, and P. sculptus from
South Georgia from material collected by the Swedish Antarctic
Expedition.
H . Polycheta
Hartman (1964, 1967) presented very useful summaries of the
history of investigations into Antarctic polychaetes. The first benthic
Antarctic species were collected by the British expedition under Sir
James Clark Ross in the Erebus and Terror in 1841, and described by
Baird (1865, 1870). McIntosh (1885) described some 62 species taken
by the Challenger off the Queen Mary Coast of Antarctica. The report
on the polychaetes collected by the Belgica in 1897-99 was not written
up till much later by Fauvel (1936). Practically every expedition to
visit Antarctica collected quantities of polychaete worms and most of
the expedition reports have contained contributions on the group.
Ehlers (1913) wrote up the polychaetes from the German deep sea
expedition in the Valdivia, Willey (1 902) the results from the Southern
Cross and Ehlers (1913) again the material collected on the German
South Polar expedition in the Gauss. The results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition appeared in a series of papers by various
authors from 1911 to 1953. Ehlers (1912) again was responsible
for the results of the British National Expedition in the Discovery.