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The Lobster, Enoplometopus occidentalis, Randall, in South Africa

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RECENTLY Mr. E. C. Chubb, curator of the Durban Museum, sent for identification a very fine specimen of the above species. First recorded from Honolulu, the records of its occurrence have been proceeding westwards: Reunion (Milne Edwards), East Indies (de Man), and Mauritius (Bouvier). Its presence on the Natal coast is therefore not unexpected, but nevertheless interesting and worthy of record.

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BARNARD, K. The Lobster, Enoplometopus occidentalis, Randall, in South Africa. Nature 134, 665 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134665c0

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