Abstract
THE report for 1932 (No. 41) on the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory at the University of Liverpool (1933), edited by Dr. R. J. Daniel, is in future to be incorporated with the Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society and not issued separately. The present report includes accounts of experimental lobster rearing by W. C. Smith, plaice marking in the Irish Sea by R. J. Daniel and R. A. Fleming, and a comparative study of the abdominal musculature in Malacostraca (Part III) by R. J. Daniel. This last paper is a continuation of Dr. Daniel's work on the muscles of various Crustacea which have been published in the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Reports in 1927, 1929 and 1932, and describes the musculature of Lophogaster typicus and Gnathophausia zo'ea. The weight of evidence shows a close affinity between the Euphausiacea and the lower decapods, although there are apparent similarities between Meganyctiphanes on one hand and Lophogaster, Gnathophausia and Praunus on the other. It is concluded by the author, after very careful consideration, that the former represents a true relationship (homology) and that similarities between mysids and euphausids are due to convergence. These researches on the abdominal muscles are carefully and beautifully worked out and are accompanied by fine drawings.
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Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Research. Nature 135, 648–649 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135648d0
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