. A contribution to American thalassography : Three cruises of the United States Coast and geodetic survey steamer "Blake", in the gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880. Blake (Steamer); Marine animals -- Atlantic Ocean; Marine sediments. the dredge has brought up three small, simple species, the first simple Fungia found in our seas. Of these we may mention Fungia symmetrica (Fig. 476), found by the dredgings of the " Chal- .lenger' to be one of the most common deep- sea corals. It has a world-wide distributio
. A contribution to American thalassography : Three cruises of the United States Coast and geodetic survey steamer "Blake", in the gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880. Blake (Steamer); Marine animals -- Atlantic Ocean; Marine sediments. the dredge has brought up three small, simple species, the first simple Fungia found in our seas. Of these we may mention Fungia symmetrica (Fig. 476), found by the dredgings of the " Chal- .lenger' to be one of the most common deep- sea corals. It has a world-wide distribution ; it occurs in the West and South Atlantic, and in the North and South Pacific, and has a very extended bathymetrical range; it has been dredged by the " Challenger" in 30 fathoms and in 2,900 fathoms, and in all inter- mediate depths. The range of tem- perature which it sustains varies from 1° to 20° C. It has been found by the "Blake" ranging from 175 to 800 fathoms in the Gulf of Mexico, the Straits of Florida, and the Carib- Fig. 470. — Fungia symmetrica. |. (Pourtales.). Fig. 477. — Diaseris crispa. (Pourtales.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910; U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
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