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species clearly having evolved to survive year-round conditions on 

 the coast in this tropical part of the world. Upwelling along the west 

 coast of Africa may well account for the extension of Asterina 

 stellifera into more tropical regions in the western Atlantic part of its 

 distribution. It will be of interest now to investigate whether other 

 shallow temperate-water echinoderms (other than the globally ubiq- 

 uitous ophiuroid, Amphipholis squamata) (see Price, 1982) or other 

 invertebrate taxa (see Barratt et al, 1984) might be found to occur in 

 the Dhofar region, which might support this thesis, particularly since 

 no other temperate-water distributed taxa appear to have been 

 recorded from the area. 



Acknowledgements. A.C.C gratefully acknowledges the diving, field 

 and laboratory support given by Brian Carnell, Paul Fletcher, Mike Morrison, 

 Robert Whitcombe, and the Biology Department of Sultan Qaboos Univer- 

 sity. The field work was financed with a grant from Sultan Qaboos University, 

 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. 



We also wish to thank two unnamed referees for their valuable and 

 constructive criticisms of the manuscript. Any remaining errors are the sole 

 responsibility of the authors. 



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