REPORT

of the

SCIENTIFIC RESULTS

of the
  
 VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER
DURING THE YEARS 1873-76

under the command of
 Captain GEORGE S. NARES, R.N. F.R.S.

and the late
Captain FRANK TOURLE THOMSON, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of

the late
Sir. C. WYVILLE THOMSON, Knt., F.R.S., &c.
Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh
Director of the Civilian Scientific Staff on board

and now of
JOHN MURRAY, LL.D., Ph. D. &c.
One of the naturalists of the expedition.


ZOOLOGY Part XXVII

1884
 
 Report on the Myzostomida collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years
1873-1876.


by

  Dr. L. von Graff,
Professor of Zoology in the College of Forestry,
Aschaffenburg, Bavaria

(The Manuscript was received on 11th October 1883.)


82 pp. Illustrated with 16 plates.

This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Volume 10, 1884.

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in the library holdings of
Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire.

June, 2004.

Copyright © 2004 by David C. Bossard.



Structure of Myzostoma,
Figure 1, Page 4



Myxostoma wyville-thomsoni,
Ventral View.
Plate VI, Fig. 1.

Myzostoma rotundum,
Ventral View.
Plate X, Fig. 2.







A high resolution  (800 ppi) world map showing the H.M.S. Challenger Track and Sounding Stations
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From Zoology Volume LIII, 1887.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE  1   001  002

INTRODUCTION  3   003  004

GENERAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE BODY  5   005  006  007  008  009  010  011

RELATION OF MYZOSTOMIDA TO THEIR HOSTS  12   012

LIST OF MYZOSTOMIDA HITHERTO KNOWN  13   013  014  015  016

LIST OF CRINOIDS ON WHICH MYZOSTOMIDA HAVE BEEN HITHERTO FOUND  17   017  018  019  020

SYSTEMATIC REMARKS  21   021

TABLE FOR DETERMINATION OF THE SPECIES  22   022  023  024  025  026

DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES  27   027  028  029  030  031  032  033  034  035  036  037  038  039  040  041  042  043  044  045  046  047  048  049  050  051  052  053  054  055  056  057  058  059  060  061  062  063  064  065  066  067  068  069  070  071  072  073  074  075  076  077  078

LIST OF MYZOSTOMIDA ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES  79   079  080

CONTENTS  81   081  082





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