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AT the beginning of this month I found some isopods in one of the swift-running streams on the top of Table Mountain; they were quite common in and under the moss covering the stones in the bed of the stream, and were very sluggish. On examination they prove to belong to the family Phreatoicidæ. The occurrence in South Africa of a member of this peculiar family, which hitherto has been recorded only from New Zealand, Australia, and Tasmania, is of great interest as bearing on the question of the ancient land connection between the southern continents.
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BARNARD, K. Phreatoicus in South Africa. Nature 91, 372 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091372c0
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