Publication Date:
2024-01-12
Description:
The most important contribution to our knowledge about the holothurian fauna of the islands along the coast of northern South America is ENGEL\xe2\x80\x99S brief report of 1939, based on Dr. WAGENAAR HUMMELINCK and earlier workers collections, up to the year 1936. His list comprises 13 species, of which all except Pentacta pygmaea (Th\xc3\xa9el) are included in HUMMELINCK\xe2\x80\x99S recent collections, which furthermore adds four more species. This expanded list is almost identical with that which recently has been compiled for the Puerto Rican waters, and with the inclusion of a few more species known from Surinam, Trinidad and Jamaica, etc., it looks as if now one has a fairly complete list of all the shallow water holothurians which occur in the Caribbean region.\nAfter the identification of HUMMELINCK\xe2\x80\x99S new material had been completed, Mr. ELISHA S. TIKASINGH (1963) has produced a more extensive report on \xe2\x80\x98The shallow water Holothurians of Cura\xc3\xa7ao, Aruba and Bonaire\xe2\x80\x99, which will be of much help to the students of holothurians in the southern part of the Caribbean.
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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