Catalogue of specimens collected by the US Exploring Expedition and received by the Philadelphia Museum, 1838 - 1842
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Echinus. (in cotta scraper) from Port Poya. St. Jago. [illegible] Cholothuria - body rufous brown, with bright yellow tubercles, [illegible] Aphelinae crinus. Masif. Island. Harbour of Rio. Aphelina Gemmulata. South. Harbor of Rio. fig by ido. D. Described Nat. Book 2: pag. 169 (Aphelina undescribed species - Echeneus / Sterche perfu- [illegible] in middle) Sea Shore at entrance of Rio de Janeiro. (Skyroniun. Hospital p. 2 Rio. Helipocampus- Do Bathyns. [illegible]. fig by ido. Drayton (12spec. undescribed) Bufo. from Organ Mountains. Ichneum - Salo in Market at Rio. Trigla- Vol. 1, 2, 3. of Crustacea. contain over 202 spe- cimens of 50 Species of small crustacea, collected in the Harbour of Rio. described by ido. James D. Dana, in separate catalogue. p. 96. "Besides the articles here catalogued, about an hundred animals have been observed (figures of which either from their perishable nature or minute size it was impossible to preserve Specimens - and we ad- dict to those, as many more which are not got in) sufficiently come to be shut away." Rio de Janeiro Decr. 23: 1798 (Signed) Joseph P. Couthury Box No. 1 contains Patelle. from Madeira. Several Specimens. Whole coast. Brosus. Do Do (Montevidian.) Littorina- Do Do Whale Coast Occlavida. Do By Pul, just at San Vincent Purpura- Do Do vicinity of Canna de Lobos. Box No. 2 contains Patellae. from Madeira. Coast near San Vincent Macrobonta. Do In vicinity of Canna de Lobos Littorina- Do Coast near Punchel - These in a Paper.