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Hiunnil tlie shoros of the Taimyr peninsula and cape Cheliii.skin. .mkhhis iiimikiiim lorms 

 of marine star-fisli, antiMlou l^selirielitii J. Miiil., an«] uphiacantlia biilenlata Iletz, and near 

 tlie winter (iiiiuicis oi tin' cxpiiiitioii, tlie star-fish (opliioglypha nodosa Liilaen). The Arctic 

 Ocean is incoinparahly riclicr in species of molluscs and crustaceans. The species of the latter, 

 as for example, idothea entomon L. and idothoa Sabinei Kr., are met with in large quantities 

 even wliere organic life in gen(!ral is poor, as for example near the delta of the Lena. Further 

 to the east and nearer to Behring Straits small crayfish (sahinea septemcarinata Seb.) and 

 species of crabs (chionoccoetos opilis Kr.) are met with. 



As regards v(!rtcbrates, the Arctic Ocean is fairly rich in iliilerenl kinds of fish, ascend- 

 ing the riill-stivainnl rivers cd" the ocean basin. The Siberian rivers possess a particularly 

 large niinilier (d' kinds of gwiniad (corregonus), among which are the nelma (corregonus leu- 

 ciclitis), i)eliad (corregoinis pclcd), chir (corregonus nasutus), omul (coiTegonus omul), 

 niuksun (corregonus inuksun), pechora gwiniad (corregonus polkur), et cetera. The dorse 

 (gadus navaga Kocrl.) and smelt (asmerus eperlanus) breed in considerable quantities in the 

 Arctic Ocean. But special interest is attached to the black fish (dallia delicatissima Sm.) 

 newly discovered by Nordenskjold's expedition and possessing an exquisite taste, with which 

 the Chukches have been ac(|uainted from the earliest times. As for the marine mammals, 

 they are of course the same as in all the polar seas, namely various kinds of seals (phoca 

 barbata, hispida, cristata, leporina, groenlandica, foetida), the dolphin (delphinus leucas), the 

 morse (tricliecus rosmarus), the ork (phocacna orca), and finally whales, which while rarely 

 approaching the Siberian shore waters are very frequent to the north of the oceanic islands, 

 Wrangel Land and New Siberia. They however fall as booty not to the Siberians but to the 

 American whalers, and indeed it may be said that the resources of the Arctic Ocean are little 

 worked I'mni the Siberian side. 



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