. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Scientific expeditions; Arctic Ocean. 24 STYLASTERIDAE must be regarded as characteristic forms of the large biocoenosis of the coral reefs. This is also strengthened by the single discovery of Stylaster gemmascens made in the Hjelte Fjord in the neighbourhood of Bergen, where Dr. O. Nordgaard has obtained two small fragments of colonies from the coral reef there. We thus see that the two Stylaster species which occur on the coast of Norway, form interesting parallels in the animal community of the northern coral reefs to the Stylasterids of the tropical coral r
. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Scientific expeditions; Arctic Ocean. 24 STYLASTERIDAE must be regarded as characteristic forms of the large biocoenosis of the coral reefs. This is also strengthened by the single discovery of Stylaster gemmascens made in the Hjelte Fjord in the neighbourhood of Bergen, where Dr. O. Nordgaard has obtained two small fragments of colonies from the coral reef there. We thus see that the two Stylaster species which occur on the coast of Norway, form interesting parallels in the animal community of the northern coral reefs to the Stylasterids of the tropical coral reefs. They are thus, like the Lophohelia reefs as a whole, bound in their occurrence to those localities with hard bottom, where the Atlantic current makes its influence most felt in the Norwegian o. 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 Ingolf (Cruiser); Danish Ingolf-Expedition (1895-1896). Copenhagen : H. Hagerup
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