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Darwin's Cavernularia

Nature volume 137, page 909 (1936)Cite this article

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SOME years ago, I discovered in the cellars of the Cambridge Museum of Zoology a specimen of the sea-pen Cavernularia with the label ” Voyage of the Beagle. C. Darwin. Galapagos Is.” I described1 it briefly under the name Cavernularia darwinii.

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  1. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 20, 3 (1921).

  2. Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., Yale, 5, 3 (1936).

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  1. SYDNEY J. HICKSON
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HICKSON, S. Darwin's Cavernularia. Nature 137, 909 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137909a0

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