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DURING 1967, reports reached the Australian Museum, Sydney, of very large cylindrical objects drifting in shallow waters off central and southern New South Wales. We shall summarize some of these reports here; a further account will be published elsewhere.
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GRIFFIN, D., YALDWYN, J. Giant Colonies of Pelagic Tunicates (Pyrosoma spinosum) from SE Australia and New Zealand. Nature 226, 464 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226464a0
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