Fishery Bulletin Of The Fish And Wildlife Service Vol 65

Author : U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330398340
Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Vol. 65 written by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Vol. 65: Issued 1965 and 1966 Knowledge of the crustacean fauna of the Carolinas has grown slowly over many decades. Early in the Iast century, Thomas Say described species from the Carolinas, and in the middle 1800's Professor L. R. Gibbes, who maintained a private collection in Charleston, S.C., described species from the Carolinas. William Stimpson (1860b), who visited Beaufort, N.C., in company with T. N. Gill, gave a list of 38 species of decapod crustaceans which he collected there. Elliott Cones (1871), at that time an Army surgeon stationed at Fort Macon, N.C., recorded 27 species of decapods from the Beaufort area, 8 of which were additions to Stimpson's list. Seven years later, Cones and Yarrow (1878) gave a list of six species, two of which had not appeared previously. An appendix to the same paper by J. S. Kingsley included 51 species from the Beaufort area, and 3 of these were additions to the fauna. A year later, Kingsley (1870) contributed eight more new records. The collection which was the subject of Kingsley's report had been made by Professor H. E. Websler, of Union College. It was later transferred, in part at least, to the U.S. National Museum, and supplied the types of Lepidopa websteri Benedict and Pinnixa cristata Rathbun, both collected near Beaufort, N.C. Professor W. K. Brooks and his students, of the Johns Hopkins University, studied crustaceans at Beaufort at intervals from 18S0 to 1903. They contributed information on habits and development, but only one or two new species were added to the faunal list. Shore's manuscript included 87 species, but he omitted 8 which had been listed by the writers already mentioned. He had added 33 species, making a total of 95 species for the region. Following this, exploratory work on offshore fishing banks by the Fish Hawk in the summers of 1914 and 1015, energetic shore and shallow-water collecting by parties from the Bureau of Fisheries laboratory at Beaufort, and inclusion of freshwater species from the region, enabled Hay to add 57 species to Shores list. These, plus description of a new species by Rathbun, brought the total number known from Beaufort, N.C., in 1918 to 153 species. The authors pointed out that some of these species had not yet been reported from the area, though from distribution elsewhere they might be expected. Also, some of the species were considered more properly to be deep-sea forms, rather than strictly members of the Beaufort fauna, although they had been found on the continental shelf not far distant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.