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3. New Zealand Ctenophores. “Raccolte planctoniche, fatte dalla R. nave ‘Liguria’”: vol. ii, Ctenofori,
In 1906 there was published (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxxix, p. 138) an account of two species of Ctenophores from the New Zealand seas, the first to be recorded scientifically—viz., Beroe shakespeari and Euplokamis australis. Professor Ghigi now publishes a report on the representatives of this group collected during the cruise of the Italian warship “Liguria.” The ship visited New Zealand in 1904, and amongst the new species recorded are two from our seas—viz., Hormiphora labialis and Sabaudia liguriae, the latter being the type and sole species of a new genus. The former was obtained between Norfolk Island and Auckland; the latter
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between Cape Campbell and Lyttelton. Both of the new species are figured. Moreover, the species which I attributed to Euplokamis Professor Ghigi places with two others in a new genus Moseria. We now know four species of Ctenophores from our seas, the result of mere haphazard collecting: this suggests that with more systematic research many more species will be found. Our knowledge of these lower pelagic forms is very meagre. W. B. B.