Author: Studer, T. [R.]
Title: Übersicht über die Ophiuriden, welche während der Reise S. M. S. Gazelle um die Erde 1874-1876 gesammelt wurden.
Description: Berlin, Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1882. 4to (28.0 x 22.7 cm). 38 pp.; three lithographed plates. original green, printed boards. = From June 21, 1874 to April 28, 1876, The Gazelle, a Prussian navy frigate, travelled around the world, collecting scientific data. The expedition set out from Kiel along the African west coast to the Cape of Good Hope, Kerguelen, Mauritius, and into the South Seas, Australia, through the Strait of Magellan and via the Azores back to Kiel. The expedition primarily served to research the sea bottoms in the South Atlantic, and the ocean currents at the equator and near New Guinea. Zoological specimens were sampled at many tropical stations. The echinoderms were studied by the scientific expedition leader, the Swiss Echinodermata specialist Theophil Rudolf Studer (1845-1922). Several species are new. Offprint. Tiny blindstamp in the lower margin of the title. Some light spotting to the plates, mainly rstricted to the lower margin, near the lower edge. Otherwise a very good, clean and unmarked copy.

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