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THE twentieth anniversary number of Copeia (No. 4, December 1933. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists), which deals with fishes, reptiles and amphibians, is dedicated to its founder, John Treadwell Nicholls. In it are included many interesting and valuable papers, notable among them being “Deep-Sea Stomiatoid Fishes” by William Beebe, in which one new genus and eight new species are described from the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society. These were all taken within the eight-mile circle, the centre of which is at lat. 32 ° 12′ N., long. 64 ° 36′ W., 9¼ miles south-south-west of Nonsuch Island, Bermuda. The barbels of some of these fishes are very peculiar; one of them, belonging to Ultimostomias mirabilis gen. et sp. nov., has a barbel measuring 417 mm. in length (more than ten times the length of the fish itself). Other papers on fish are by Albert Eide Parr, George S. Myers, E. W. Gudger and C. M. Bredor, Jr. A new snake from Panama is described by E. R. Dunn and there is an interesting article on the immunity of rattlesnakes to then venom by A, A. Nichol, Volney Douglas and Lewellyn Peck, Other papers arc on the nests and young of the Allegheny salamander, the ophidian generic names Ahætulla and Dendrophis, secondary sexual characters of Bufo melanostictus, and Peeudmys troostii-elegans complex, a case of sexual dimorphism.
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Ichthyology in the United States. Nature 133, 944 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133944b0
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