Word: amphioxii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...
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