. Barbados-Antigua expedition; narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from theUniversity of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College . e Antillean species. In 86 fathoms, due west of the Cable Station, we obtained asingle, but living, specimen of an Ovulum which is scarcelyseparable from the Ovulum carnea Poir, of the is the first record of a true Ovulum from the West fact of its closeness, or even identity, with a Mediterraneanspecies, is suggestive and interesting. The equatorial driftsfrom Africa to Brazil mu
. Barbados-Antigua expedition; narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from theUniversity of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College . e Antillean species. In 86 fathoms, due west of the Cable Station, we obtained asingle, but living, specimen of an Ovulum which is scarcelyseparable from the Ovulum carnea Poir, of the is the first record of a true Ovulum from the West fact of its closeness, or even identity, with a Mediterraneanspecies, is suggestive and interesting. The equatorial driftsfrom Africa to Brazil must have had some important bearingupon the AntiUean marine fauna. There are many Mediter-ranean, East African and Antillean mollusks that show a rela-tionship, but none that according to modern acceptances of aspecies are quite positively identical. The late Tertiary ofItaly and the Mediterranean region does, however, contain asurprising number of species exceedingly closely allied with theliving species in the West Indies, and one might almost saythe origin itself of our Antillean fauna is found in the Plioceneof Southern Europe. The living Mediterranean fauna is less PLATE XXT. Shells from Barbados and AntiguaXatural size except Figs. 4 and 5. which are enlarged two diameters (Furnished by J. B. Henderson) 1. Epitni)euiii i^ii-nobiUx Fischer and Bernardi, Barbados 2. Conus centurio Born, Barbados, 60 fms. 3. Morum dennisoni Reeve, Barbados, 60 fms. 4. radiata Dall. Barbados, 120 fms. (See page 201) 5. Conus mazei Deshayes, Barbados, 120 fms. 6. Murex hrerifrotis Lamarck, English Harbor, Antigua (See page 199) 7. Asfraea f/uadelotipensis Crosse. Falmouth Hai-bor, Antigua 8. PlenrotoiiiurUt tjtiot/ana Fischer and Bernardi, Barbados, 100 fms. (See page 90) PLATE XXII
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