The Spatangid Echinoids of New Zealand
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
The material here reported has been collected over a number of years by Dr Patricia M. Ralph, Mr Fred Abernethy and, more recently, Mr and Mrs Thor Nielsen and Mr Noel Johnson, to all of whom I am deeply indebted. I am also grateful to Dr R. K. Dell for permission to study a specimen in the Dominion Museum, presented by Mrs O. Sansom, and to Mr Barry Smith, who presented to Victoria University the type specimen of one of the new species recorded below. Miss Dorothy Grantham allowed me to study another specimen of the same species in her collection. The most significant additions to the fauna are species discovered by Mr Thor Nielsen in Foveaux Strait, and forwarded to me at the instance of Mr John Graham. It is a pleasure to record the conspicuous part played by amateur naturalists in the discovery of these notable species, including as they do the largest and most remarkable species of Spatangus ever recorded.