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 LXXXII

1889
 
 Report on the Deep-Sea Keratosa collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-1876.

  by

  Ernst Haeckel, M.D., Ph.D.,Hon. F.R.S.E., &c.
Professor of Zoology in the University of Jena.

(This Manuscript was received 14th March 1889.)


92 pp. Illustrated with 8 plates.

This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Volume 32, 1886.

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.


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Stannophyllum Zonarium
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Stannophyllum venosum
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Psammophyllum annectens
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Psammophyllum reticulatum
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Psammopemma calcareum
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Ammolynthus prototypus
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Editorial note

PREFACE  1  001  002

CONTENTS  3   003

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION  5   005  006  007  008  009  010

General Remarks on the Organisation of the Deep-Sea Keratosa  11   011  012  013  014  015  016  017  018  019  020  021  022

Description of Genera and Species 

    Family I.  Ammoconidæ  23   023  024  025  026  027  028  029  030  031

    Family II.  Psamminidæ  32   032  033  034  035  036  037  038  039  040  041

    Family III.   Spongelidæ  42   042  043  044  045  046  047  048  049  050  051  052  053

    Family IV.  Stannomidæ  54   054  055  056  057  058  059  060  061  062  063  064  065  066  067  068  069  070  071  072  073  074

APPENDIX 

    1. Symbiotic Hydroida living in the Deep-Sea Keratosa  75   075

    2,  Classification of Sponges  75   075  076  077  078  079  080  081  082  083  084

    3.  Relations of the Keratosa to the other Sponges  85   085  086  087  088  089

    4.  Position of the Sponges in the Animal Kingdom  90   090  091  092

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