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DURING the Danish Dana Expeditions of 1920–1922 in the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Panama, under the leadership of Prof. Johs. Schmidt, a magnificent collection of ceratioid fishes was made, which forms the subject of a monograph by Mr. C. Tate Regan,1 Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum (Natural History), from which the accompanying illustrations have been reproduced. Prior to the Dana Expeditions, and excluding the Michael Sars collection, as yet undescribed, only about sixty examples of this amazing suborder of fishes were known, so that the Dana addition of 220 specimens representing 39 species, many of which were new to science, was of great biological value.
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"The Pediculate Fishes of the Suborder Ceratioidea". By C. Tate Regan . The Danish Dana Expeditions 1920–1922 in the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Panama. Oceanographical Reports edited by the Dana Committee, No. 2. (Copenhagen; Gyldendalske Boghandel. London: Wheldon and Wesley, Ltd., 1926.) 15s.
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A Remarkable Suborder of Fishes. Nature 118, 774–775 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118774a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118774a0