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Hurley and McKnight1 have reported that the pelagic tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum atlanticum rests on or swims just above the sea-floor at a depth of 160–170 metres. Indirect observations made on this species in the course of a line-fishing survey of the fishes of the south-eastern Australian continental slope2 corroborate the concentration of this species near the sea-floor and extend the habitat to the floor of the continental slope.
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Hurley, D. E., and McKnight, D. G., Nature, 183, 4660 (1959).
Cowper, T. R., and Downie, R. J., C.S.I.R.O., Aust. Div. Fish. Oceanogr. Rep. No. 6 (1957).
Thompson, Harold, “Pelagic Tunicates of Australia” (Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Australia, Melbourne, 1948).
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COWPER, T. Occurrence of Pyrosoma on the Continental Slope. Nature 187, 878–879 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187878b0
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