An Account Of The Alcyonarians Collected By The Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator In The Indian Ocean By J Arthur Thomson And W D Henderson I The Alcyonarians Of The Deep Sea Ii The Alcyonarians Of The Littoral Area By J A Thomson And J J Simpson PDF Download

Excerpt from An Account of the Alcyonarians: Collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator in the Indian Ocean This memoir contains a description of the rich collection of Deep-Sea Alcyonarians made by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship "Investigator" in the Indian Ocean. It will be followed by another dealing with the littoral forms. The collection includes eighty-six species, of which sixty-one (and three varieties) are new. It has been found necessary to establish five new genera, - Stereacanthia and Agaricoides in the family Nephthyidae, subfamily Siphonogorginae; Acanthomuricea and Calicogorgia in the family Muriceidae; and Thesioides in the family Kophobelemnonidae. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."