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The writer has also examined a very large specimen, taken in 

 the Galapagos Islands, by Dr. Charles Townsend, formerly direc- 

 tor of the New York City Aquarium. This specimen is also ana- 

 tomically identical with the several Atlantic specimens with 

 which it was compared. 



Full discussion of this ancient, primitive macruran has been 

 presented in Volume III, Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Mu- 

 seum, 1930, p. 80, plate 22. 



Family: NEPHROPSIDAE 



Genus: NEPHROPS Leach 



Nephrops norvegicus (Linne) 



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Plate 101 



Type: Linne's type was collected in the "Mari Norvegico" 

 and is deposited in the Museum Ludovicse Ulricae, Upsala. 



Distribution : The bathymetrical occurrence for this prawn 

 ranges from 1 to 337 fathoms, the latter, a "Helga" station for 

 it off Ireland, being next to the greatest recorded depth for it 

 (Selbie, 1914), Senna's (1903) record of 416 to 450 fathoms, 

 west of Sicily, being the maximum depth recorded. 



Geographically it ranges from off the south coast of Iceland, 

 where it occurs in such abundance that it is the principal food 

 of the cod, as well as food for man, south (Hansen, Selbie) , It is 

 also abundant on the coasts of Scotland, excepting in the Hebrides, 

 Shetlands and Faeroes, likewise abundant on the coasts of Eng- 

 land and on the entire Irish coasts (Bell, Hansen, Selbie, and 

 others). It is found on the entire coast of the Scandinavian 

 Peninsula (Sars, Meinert, Hansen, and others) ; on the coast of 

 Denmark (Hansen, Stephenson) ; on the Atlantic coasts of Bel- 

 gium and France ; also on the coast of the Hispanic Peninsula, 

 the Mediterranean shores of Spain and France (Van Beneden, 

 Bonnier, Caullery, Nobre, Boone) ; in the Mediterranean and 

 Adriatic off Italy (Heller, Senna), and on the coast of Morocco 

 (Milne Edwards). 



Material examined: Three large males, taken at Almeria, 

 Spain, Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 1929. 



