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Table 1. — Synopsis and known distribution of anemones in Bahamas, Tortugas, and the Gulf of Mexico — Continued 



NOTE : The following species, so far known only from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, have recently been described by Carlgren and Htdgpoth (1952) : 

 Andwakiidae, Andwakia isabellae; Actiniidae, Bunodactis texaensis: Aiptasiomorphidae. Aiptasimorpha texnensis; Sagartiidae?, Botryon tuberculatas; Zoan- 

 tharia, Zoanthidae, Palyttioa texaensis. 



Of all the animals living in the sea the anemones 

 are at the same time among the most beautiful and 

 most difficult to study.. A sound basis for the 

 study of anemones is a detailed series of notes on 

 the living animals including color sketches or 

 photographs, measurements, and descriptions of 

 the nematocj'sts, and a set of well-prepared slides 



of various parts of each species. Each marine 

 laboratory or station should compile a set of color 

 photographs, camera lucida drawings of the 

 nematocysts (under oil immersion) making up 

 the cnidom, and serial sections for each species in 

 its fauna. A collection of huddled lumps of 

 coelenterate flesh is almost useless to all but the 



