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LIST V. 



MeTAZOA recorded from the KERCiUELEN ReGIO-V, FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN THE 



Challenger Expedition. 



Ill order to complete our survey of the marine fauna of the Kergueleu Region we give 

 here a list of species recorded from other sources^ (British and American Transit of Venus 

 Expeditions, "Gazelle" Expedition, &c.), excluding a number of unnamed species, the 

 distribution of which cannot be discussed, as well as land and fresh-water species. Species 

 alreaily recorded in the preceding Challenger list (List IV.) arc not repeated in this list, 

 and where the nomenclature does not agree that adopted in the Challenger Report is 

 indicated in square brackets. 



MONAXONIDA '"' : 



Halichondria [ = Suheritcs] caniosa, Johnston. Recorded from Britain, Azores, 



Fernando Noronha, Port Jackson, and Vancouver's Island (?). 



,, \_ = Myxilla] plumosa, Johnston. Recorded from Britain. 



,, sanguined, Johnston. Recorded from Britain. 



Isodiciya rosea, Bowerbank. Recorded from Britain. 



' See "All account of tlie Petrological, Botanical, and Zoological Collections made in Kerguelen's Land and 

 Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus Expeditious, carried out by order of Her Majesty's Government in the years 

 1874-75," PhilosojMcal Transactions, vol. 168 (extra volume), 1879; J. H. Kidder, "Contributions to the Natural 

 History of Kerguelen Island, made in conuectiou with the United States Transit-of- Venus Expedition, 1874-75," LiM. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 3, 1876 ; Studer, " Cber Echinodermen aus dem antarktischen Meere, gesammelt auf der Reise 

 S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde," Monatsher. d. k. Ahxd. d. Whs. Berlin, 1876, pp. 452-463 ; Studer, lUd., 1878, pp. 542- 

 546, 633, C61 ; Studer, "Die Fauna vou Kerguelensland," Arcliiv fiir Natunjcschichtc, Jahrg. xlv. Bd. i. pp. 104-141, 

 1879 ; Studer, " Uebersiclit iUjer die Ophiuriden, welche, wiihrend der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde 1874-1876 

 gesammelt wurden," Ahhandl. d. k. Akad. d. JFiss. Berlin, 1882, pp. 1-37 ; Studer, "Isopoden, gesammelt wahrend der 

 Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde 1874-76," Ibid., 1883, pp. 1-28 ; Grube, " Annelidenausbeute von S.M.S. Gazelle," 

 Monatsher. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, 1877, pp. 509-554 ; Crosse, "Faune malacologique des ties Kerguelen," .Toura. 

 de C'onchylioloyie, s(;r. 3, torn. xvii. p. 1, 1877. 



^ Of the Sponges collected at Kerguelen by the British Transit of Venus Expedition, H. J. Carter writes : — The 

 collection of Sponges from Kergueleu Island is very limited in extent. So far as it goes, it may be said to present a 

 European, and more especially a British facies. Half of the species at the fewest, may l^e picked up at any time on 

 the beach of South Devon : — viz., Isodiiiya rosea, Halichondria plumosa, H. carnosa, and H. sanr/uinca. To these we 

 might add a fifth species, H. panicea, for the Kerguelen variety differs from the normal British form only in the 

 possession of spicules twice the size of the latter. Of the three species remaining Tludysias is common to the Mediter- 

 ranean and the seas between the Americas ; the Ute occurs on the N.W. coast of Spain and in the Mediterranean ; 

 and one only, the Tctluja, is decidedly antarctic. This last was the only specimen oVitained from a consideralile depth ; 

 all of the others were either collected with the grapple w-ithin tlie Laminarian zone, or were the produce of sliore- 

 collecting between tide-marks or amidst the refuse of the beach. Probably more extended research would have brought 

 to light divers of the many peculiar forms which abound in the Cape seas and in those of the southern part of 

 Australia. In the course of my examination I have met with very few Foranvinifera, no Globigerina, and no coccoliths. — 

 {Phil. Trans., vol. 168, p. 286.) 



Carter refers some Sponges collected at Kerguelen by the British Transit of Venus Expedition to the species 

 Thcdysias suhtrianyularis, Duchassaing and Michelotti, and Tethya antarctica, Carter. Ridley and Dendy refer 

 the first to their Petrosia similis, regarding it as distinct from the West Indian Petrosia siditriangularis, while 

 SoLLAS refers the second to his Tctilla rjrandis, regarding it as distinct from Tetilla antarctica obtained by Ross' 

 Antarctic Expedition in 206 and 300 fathoms in the neighbourhood of Victoria Land. 



