XXXIV.—Zoological notes and observations made on board H.M.S. Rattlesnake
XXXIV.—Zoological notes and observations made on board H.M.S. Rattlesnake
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XXXIV.—在响尾蛇号上进行的动物学记录和观察
DOI：
10.1080/03745486109495002
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发表时间：
1851
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
T. Huxley
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作者：
T. Huxley
在“响尾蛇”航行过的所有海洋中，无论是温带还是热带，我都发现水面上漂浮着奇特的凝胶状物体，这就是本次通讯的主题。它们是拖网的所有各种产品中最稳定的，在没有获得其中一些的情况下很少使用拖网，有时，几天之内几乎不会包含任何其他东西。这些生物结构的极端简单性比任何复杂性都更令我困惑。由于难以理解它们与我所熟悉的动物生命形式的关系，因此我对它们的研究相当反感，而且，正如我现在所意识到的，使我对它们的组织的描述远不如我所希望的那么完整。
IN all the seas, whether extra-troplcal or tropical, through which the" Rattlesnake" sailed, I found floating at the surface the peculiar gelatinous bodies which are the subject of the present communication. They were the most constant of all the various products of the towing-net, which was rarely used without obtaining some of them, and which sometimes, for days, would contain hardly anything else.The extreme simplicity of structure of these creatures was more puzzling to me than any amount of complexity would have been. The difficulty of perceiving their relations with those forms of animal life with which I was familiar, gave me rather a distaste to the study of them, and, as I now perceive, has rendered my account of their organization far less complete than I could wish it.