Colman, John. (1946). Marine Biology in St. Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 116(2): 266-280.

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10.1111/j.1096-3642.1946.tb00123.x [view]

Colman, John

1946

116(2): 266-280

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https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1946.tb00123.x

There is little detail on the collection stations, except for those taken by trawl/dredge

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Summary: In 1945 the author was sent by the Colonial Office to St. Helena to investigate the local fisheries, and he took the opportunity to examine the marine fauna and flora of the island. Although St. Helena is well within the tropics, the sea-temperature is only moderate and the plants and animals are not characteristic of a tropical region. They lack the great number of species to be found in warmer waters, and there are no coral reefs, but on the other hand the cold. water fauna and flora of South Africa is hardly represented in St. Helena at all. The animals, and still more so the plants, are on the whole surprisingly few. To judge from the three groups which have been at all well studied (molluscs, echinoderms and fish), about a quarter or a third of the St. Helenian species are peculiar to the island ; the closest relationships of the fauna are with that of the West Indies, and the next closest with those of the Mediterranean and West Africa ; there are only slender links with South Africa.

Atlantic Ocean (without specification)

Ecology

Annelida
Hydrozoa

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