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19. Amphiura magellanica Ljungman. 
Figs. 14.1— 3 ; 15.a. 
Amphiura magellanica. Ljungman. 1866. Ophiuroidea viventia hue 
usque cognita. Ofvers. kgl. Vet. Ak. Forh. p. 320. 
— — (?) Th. Ly man. 1875. Zool. Res. Hassier Exped. 
IL Ophiuridæ and Astrophytidæ. 
111. Cat Mus Comp. Zool. VIII. 
p. 19 
— — — 1882. “Challenger“Ophiuroidea, 
p. 143. 
— — H. L u d w i g. 1899. Hamburger Magalh. Sammel- 
reise. Ophiurpidea. p. 10. 
— — — 1905. Asterien u. Oph. d. schwed. 
Exped. Z. w. Zool. Bd. 82. p. 75. 
— — R. Koehler. 1909. Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea & 
Echinoidea. Scottish National Ant- 
aret. Exp. Vol. V. Part. XIII. p. 271. 
PI. XI. fig 104. 
— — — 1914. Ophiurans of the U. S. Nat. 
Museum. Buli. U. S. Nat. Mus. 84. 
p. 65. 
— — H.Lym. Clark. 1915. Catalogue Rec. Ophiur¬ 
ans. p 228. 
— — Th. Mortensen. 1920. On hermaphroditism 
in viviparous Ophiurids. Acta Zoologica. 1. p. 12. 
Masked Island, Carnley Harbour. Auckland Isl. 3/XIL1914. Several spec- 
imens, on the rocks, among calcareous algæ {Melobesia ant- 
arctica). 
Figure 8 Isl., Carnley Harbour, Auckland Isl. 2/XIL14. 4 specimens, 
under stones, at low water. 
Port Ross, Auckland Isl., 10 fms. Sand. 25/XL14. 1 specimen 
Carnley Harbour, Auckland Isl., ca. 45 fms; sandy mud. 6/XII.1914. 1 
specimen. 
Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Isl. Ca. 20 fms, sandy mud. 10/XILI914. 
3 specimens. 
Wellington Harbour, 5—10 fms, hard bottom. 16/11.1915. 2 specimens. 
Queen Charlotte Sound, 3—10 fms, hard bottom. 20/1.1915. 2 specimens. 
The finding of this interesting viviparous and hermaphroditic 
Ophiurid in New Zealand seas is rather surprising; not from a 
zoogeographical point of view — it is one of the forms which 
might be expected to have got a circumantarctic distribution through 
being carried by floating algæ —, but as it-oceurs in a place like 
