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Title: Science of the sea. An elementary handbook of practical oceanography for travellers, sailors, and yachtsmen
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Challenger Society Fowler, G. Herbert (George Herbert), 1861-1940
Subjects: Oceanography Ocean
Publisher: London, John Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 165.—Holtenia, a Deep-Sea Glass Sponge (Challenger ) CONTINENTAL SHELF 237 Pennatulida (Fig. 168), the sea-fans, or Gorgoniacea(Figs. 169,170), the fleshy masses of the dead-mens-fingers (Alcyonaria), the sea anemones, the redorprecious cora] (Corallium), and the true corals (Madre-

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Fig. 166.—Leptopenus, a Deep-Sea Coral (Challenger). poraria), both colonial (Fig. 26, p. 90) and solitary(Fig. 166) ; the true corals are by no means confinedto the warmer seas, although it is only there that theydisplay their full luxuriance.Starfishes (Fig. 174), brittle-stars (Fig. 173), sea- 238 ANIMALS OF THE SEA FLOOR

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