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THERE are one or two rather hasty conclusions in the letters you have recently published upon the feather-star, which I will take the liberty of pointing out. My friend, Major Lang, arguing from his experience in Torbay, says: βIt is evident that the habitat of Comatula is strictly defined, viz., in comparatively deep water, and amongst rocks.β Last year, however, I took it in Salcombe Estuary, in shallow water, and not among rocks, but among the Zostera marina, to which numbers of the young stalked form were sticking. The well-known marine zoologist, Mr. Hincks, tells me that he took both the adult and stalked forms in great abundance in the same locality more than twenty years ago.
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STEBBING, T. Antedon Rosaceus (Comatula rosacea). Nature 15, 58 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015058b0
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