Galathea Report 1957-2005

The Galathea Report contains published scientific results of The Danish Galathea 2 Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World 1950-52.

This page contains links to the contents of volumes 1 through 20 of the Galathea Report, all of which have been digitalized and made freely available.

Volume 01 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1957 - 59

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• BRUUN, ANTON F.: General indroduction to the reports and list of deep-sea stations.pp 007-048 ..
• NIELSEN, ERIK STEEMANN & AABYE JENSEN: Primary oceanic production. The autotrophic production of organic matter in the oceans. pp 049-136 ..
• BRAARUD, TRYGVE: A red water organism from Walvis Bay. pp 137-138 ..
• ZOBELL, CLAUDE E. & RICHARD Y. MORITA: Deep-Sea Bacteria. pp 139-154 ..
• KIILERICH, ALF.: Bathymetric features of the Philippine Trench. pp 155-172 .
• KRAMP, POUL L.: Stephanoscyphus (Scyphozoa) pp 173-188
• MILLAR, R. H.: Ascidiacea. pp 189-210 .Plate 01 (pdf181 kb)
• DAHL, ERIK: Amphipoda from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 211-242 ..
• PICKFORD, GRACE E.: Vampyromorpha. pp 243-254
• ROFEN, ROBERT R.: The whale-fishes: Families Cetomimidae, Barbourisiidae and Rondeletiidae (Order Cetunculi). pp 255-260 ..

Volume 02 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1956

• CORRIGENDA to volume 2
• Contents.pp 001-006 .
• Forewords by the executive editors.pp 007-008 .
• CARLGREEN, OSCAR: Actiniaria from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 009-016 Plate 01 (pdf..1.070 kb)
• KRAMP, POUL.L.: Hydroids from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 017-020
• MADSEN, FRITZ JENSENIUS: Primmoella krampi n. sp. A new deep-sea octocoral. pp 021-022
• MADSEN, FRITZ JENSENIUS: Echinoidea, Asteroidea, and Ophiuroidea from depths exceeding 6000 meters pp 023-032 Plate 01 (pdf..1.443 kb)
• HANSEN, BENT: Holothurioidea from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 023-054
• HANSEN, BENT & FRITZ JENSENIUS MADSEN: On two bathypelagic holothurians from the South China Sea. Glatheathuria n. g. aspera (Théel) and Enypniastes globosa n. sp. pp 055-060 Plate 01 (pdf..980 kb)
• GILSÉN, TORSTEN: Crinoids from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 061-062 Plate 01 (pdf..549 kb)
• KIRKEGAARD, JØRGEN B.: Benthic Polychaeta from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 063-078 ..
• KIRKEGAARD, JØRGEN B.: Pogonophora. Galathealinum bruuni n. gen. n. sp., a new representative of the class. pp 079-084 ..
• WOLFF, TORBEN: Isopoda from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 085-158 .
• FAGE, LOUIS: Les Pycnogonides du genre Nymphon. pp 159-166
• FAGE, LOUIS: Les Pycnogonides (excl. le genre Nymphon). pp 167-182 ..
• KIRKEGAARD, JØRGEN B.: Pogonophora. First records from the Eastern Pacific. pp 183-186 ..
• WOLFF, TORBEN: Crustacea Tanaidacea from depths exceeding 6000 meters. pp 187-242 ..
• WIESER, WOLFGANG: Some free-living marine nematodes. pp 243-254

Volume 03 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1959

• ERRATA to volume 3
• Contents. pp 001-006 .
• Forewords by the editors.pp 007-008
• LEMCHE, HENNING and KARL GEORG WINGSTRAND: The anatomy of Neopolina galathea Lemche, 1957(Mollusca Tryblidiacea).pp 009-072 .
• Plates 01 to 10 - fig.001-037
• Plates 11 to 20 - fig.038-072
• Plates 21 to 30 - fig.073-104
• Plates 31 to 40 - fig.105-129
• Plates 41 to 56 - fig.130-169
• SCHMIDT, W. J.: Bemerkungen zur Schalenstruktur von Neopolina galatheae.pp 073-078 ..
• Plates 01 & 02
• MUNK, OLE: The eyes of Ipnops murrayi Günther, 1878.pp 079-087

Volume 04 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1961

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• KIRKEGAARD, JØRGEN B.: Pogonophora III. The genus Lamellisabella.pp 007-010
• WOLFF, TORBEN: Description of a remarkable deep-sea hermit crab, with notes on the evolution of the Paguridea . pp 011-032 .
• MADSEN, FRITZ JENSENIUS: The Porcellanasteridae. A monographic revision of an abyssal group of sea-stars. pp 033-176 ..
• Plates 01-03
• Plates 04-06
• Plates 07-09
• Plates 10-13
• MADSEN, FRITZ JENSENIUS: On the zoogeography and origin of the abyssal fauna, in view of the knowledge of the Porcellanasteridae. pp 177-218 ..
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN: Heterosamata (Pisces). pp 218-226 ..
• Plate 14

Volume 05 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1961

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• AAKESSON, BERTIL: Some observations on Pelagosphaera larvae (Sipunculoidae).pp 007-018 .
• Plates 01-06
• COHEN, DANIEL M.: On the identity of the species of the fish genus Argentina in the Indian Ocean. pp 019-022
• BARNARD, JERRY LAURENS: Gammaridean Amphipoda from the depths of 400 to 6000 meters. pp 023-128 ..
• WOLFF, TORBEN: Animal life from a single abyssal trawling. pp 123-162
• Plates 07-10
• KNUDSEN, JØRGEN: The bathyal and the abyssal Xylophaga (Pholadidae, Bivalvia). pp 163-209 .

Volume 06 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1962 In the memory of Anton Frederik Bruun

• CORRECTIONS to volume 6
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL ISOPODA ASELLOTA By TORBEN WOLFF Contents. .pp 001-009 I. Preface. pp 009-010, II. Introduction. .pp 010-014, III. Terminology. .pp 015-016 - pp 001-016 ..
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL ISOPODA ASELLOTA By TORBEN WOLFF IV. Systematic Part. Classification of the Asellota. p 017 The significance of various characters in the taxonomy. pp 018-020, Stenetrioidea. .pp 021-028, Paraselloidea. .pp 029-048, pp 017-048
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL ISOPODA ASELLOTA By TORBEN WOLFF Echinothambematidae. ..p 049, Thambematidae. p 049, Haploniscidae. pp 049-059, Munnidae. .pp 059-062, The Dendrotion-Antias-Abyssianira complex. pp 063-064, Dendrotionidae. .pp 064-068, Antiasidae. ..pp 069-070, Ischnomesidae. .pp 071-089, Macrostylidae. pp 090-108 - pp 049-108
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL ISOPODA ASELLOTA By TORBEN WOLFF Eurycopidae. ..pp 108-182, Munnopsidae. .pp 183-205, pp 108 - 205
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL ISOPODA ASELLOTA By TORBEN WOLFF List of generic synonyms of Stenetrioidae and Paraselloidae. ..p 206. General Part . A. Postmarsupial development. .pp 206-213 B. Reproduction. pp 214-222 C. Hermaphroditism in Isopoda. .pp 213-228 D. Some characteristics of deep-sea Asselota. ..pp 229-238 E. The food of some deep-sea Asselota. pp 238-244 F. Habitat. .. pp 245-247 pp 206-247
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL ISOPODA ASELLOTA By TORBEN WOLFF G. Distribution of the marine Asellota. pp 248-302 H. Summary. pp 303-306 J. References. ..pp 307-315 pp 248-315
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BATHYAL AND ABYSSAL ISOPODA ASELLOTA By TORBEN WOLFF K. Index. .pp 315-320
• Plates 01-05
• Plates 06-010
• Plates 11-15
• Plates 16-19

Volume 07 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1964

• Contents.pp 001-006
• KIILERICH, ALF: Hydrographical data.pp 007-028 .
• CASTLE, PETER H. J.: Deep-sea eels: Family Synaphobranchidae.pp 029-042
• TIXIER-DURIVAULT, A.: Stolonifera et Alcyonacea.pp 043-058
• MILLAR, R. H.: Ascidiacea: Additional Material.pp 059-062 .
• Plate 01
• LÉVI, CLAUDE: Spongiaires des zones bathyale, abyssale et hadale.pp 063-112 .
• Plates 02-11
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN: Fishes from depths exceeding 6000 meters.pp 113-124 .
• KNUDSEN, JØRGEN: Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from depths exceeding 6000 meters.pp 125-136
• MUNK, OLE: The eyes of three benthic deep-sea fishes caught at great depths.pp 125-136 ..
• Plates 12-14

Volume 08 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1966 (issued 1965)

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• THEISEN, BIRGIT : On the cranial morphology of Ipnops murrayi Günther, 1878 with special reference to the
• Relation between the eyes and the skull.pp 007-020 .
• Plates 01-02
• MUNK, OLE : Ocular degeneration in deep-sea fishes.pp 021-032 .
• Plates 03-11
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN G.: On the genera Acanthomus and Typhlomus (Pisces, Brotulidae).pp 032-048 .
• Plates 11-13
• Isssued 1966
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN G.: Synopsis of the Ipnopidae (Pisces, Iniomi) with descriptions of two new abyssal species.pp 049-076 ..
• Plates 14-16
• ANDERSEN, KNUD P.: Classification of Ipnopidae by means of principal components and discriminant functions.pp 077-090 ..
• McCAIN, JOHN C.: Abyssicaprella galatheae, a new genus and species of abyssal caprellid (Amphipoda: Caprellidae).pp 091-096
• VERVOORT, W.: Bathyal and abyssal hydroids.pp 097-174 .
• ZENKEVITCH, LEV A.: The systematics and distribution of abyssal and hadal (ultra-abyssal) Echiuroidea. pp 175-183
• Plate 17

Volume 09 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1968

• CORRIGENDA to volume 9
• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• LARSEN, BIRGER: Sediments from the central Philippine Trench.pp 007-022 ..
• LANG, KARL: Deep-Sea Tanaidacea. part 1 pp 023-120 ..
• LANG, KARL: Deep-Sea Tanaidacea. part 2 pp 121-210 .
• Plates 01-10
• MUNK, OLE: On the eye of the so-called preorbital light organ of the isospondylous deep-sea fish Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean, 1896.pp 211-220 .
• Plates 11-12
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN G. and VERNER LARSEN: Synopsis of the Bathylaconidae (Pisces, Isospondyli) with a new Eastern Pacific species.pp 221-238 .
• Plates 13-15
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN G., AASE JESPERSEN and OLE MUNK: Spermatophores in Ophidioidea (Pisces, Percomorphi).pp 239-254 ..
• Plates 16-24
• List of papers resulting in whole or in part from the Galathea Expedition.pp 255-256 ..

Volume 10 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1969

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN G.: Systematics and biology of the Aphyonides (Pisces, Ophidiodea). pp 007-090 ..
• MILLAR, R. H.: Ascidiacea: Some futher specimens.pp 091-098 .
• Plates 01-04
• JONES, NORMAN S.: The systematics and distribution of Cumacae from depths exceeding 200 meters. pp 099-098

Volume 11 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1970

• Contents. pp 001-007 .
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF ABYSSAL AND HADAL BIVALVIA By JØRGEN KNUDSEN Contents.pp 007-008 ..
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF ABYSSAL AND HADAL BIVALVIA I. Introduction.pp 009-017 ..
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF ABYSSAL AND HADAL BIVALVIA II. Systematic Part.pp 018-159
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF ABYSSAL AND HADAL BIVALVIA III. General remarks.pp 160-225
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF ABYSSAL AND HADAL BIVALVIA IV. Summary.pp 225-229 .
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF ABYSSAL AND HADAL BIVALVIA V. References.pp 230-236 .
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF ABYSSAL AND HADAL BIVALVIA VI. Dansk resume.pp 236-238 .NONE
• Plates 01-10
• Plates 10-20
• CATTON, Y.: Description de Paranicothoe n. gen., un nouveau representant de la famille des Nicothoidae.pp 239-246
• LAL, DEVENDRA, V. N. NUAMPURKAR & B. L. K. SOMAYAJULU: Concentration of cosmogenic Si32 in deep Pacific and Indian waters based on study of Galathea deep sea siliceous sponges.pp 247-256 .

Volume 12 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1972-73

• CORRECTIONS to volume 12
• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• TENDAL, OLE SECHER: A monograph of the Xenophyophoria (Rhizopodea, Protozoa).pp 007-100
• BOURDON, ROLAND: Epicarides de la Galathea Expedition.pp 101-112 .
• RICHARDSON, LAURENCE R. & MARVIN C. MEYER: Deep-sea fish leeches (Rhynchobdellae: Piscicolidae).pp 113-126 .
• KNUDSEN, JØRGEN: Guivillea alabastriina (Watson, 1882), an abyssal volutid (Gastropoda: Mollusca).pp 127-132
• Plate 18
• MADSEN, FRITZ JENSENIUS: The Ophiodermatidae (Ophiuroidea).pp 133-144
• List of papers resulting in whole or in part from the Galathea Deep-Sea Expedition.pp 145-146
• Plates 01-05
• Plates 06-12
• Plates 12-17

Volume 13 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1973

• CORRECTIONS to volume 13
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS by BENT HANSEN Contents.pp 001-007 ..
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS I. Indroduction. pp 007-014 .
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS II. Systematic Part.part 1 pp 014-126
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS part 2 pp 126-182
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS III. General Part.pp 182-246
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS IV. Summary.pp 247-253 ..
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS V. References.pp 254-258 .
• THE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE DEEP-SEA HOLOTHURIANS VI. Index to names of genera and species .pp 259 - 262 .
• Plates 01-07
• Plates 08-14

Volume 14 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1977

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• BERTELSEN, ERIK & PAUL J. STRUHSAKER: The geratioid fishes of the genus Thaumatichthys. Osteology, relationshops, distribution and biology.pp 007-040
• Plates 01-03
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN G.: The deepest living fish, Abyssobrotula galatheae, a new genus and species of oviparus ophidioids (Pisces, Brotulidae).pp 041-048
• Plates 04-07
• SULAK, KENNETH J.: The systematics and biology of Bathypterois (Pisces, Chloropthalmidae) with a revised classification of benthic myctophiform Fishes.pp 049-108
• Plate 08
• MADSEN, FRITZ JENSENIUS: The Ophioleucidae (Ophiuroidea).pp 109-122 .
• ROELEVELD, MARTINA A.: Cephalopoda from the tropical Eastern Atlantic Ocean.pp 123-132 .
• MURINA, V. V. : A new species of Sipuncula from Atlantic Ocean.pp 133-134 ..
• CUTLER, EDWARD B.: The bathyal and abyssal Sipuncula.pp 135-156 ..
• PASTERNAK, FEDOR A.: Antipatharia.pp 157-164 ..
• TENDAL, OLE SECHER & ROBERT R. HESSLER: An introduction to the biology and systematics of Komokiacea (Textulariina, Foraminiferida).pp 165-194 .
• Plates 09-14
• Plates 15-20
• Plates 21-26

Volume 15 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1981

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• ZEZINA, OLGA N.: Recent deep-sea Brachiopoda from the Western Pacific.pp 007-020 .
• Plates 01-04
• HAYWARD, PAUL J.: The Cheilostomata (Bryozoa) of the deep-sea.pp 021-068 .
• Plate 05
• CHRISTENSEN, AAGE MØLLER: Fecampia abyssicola n.sp. (Turbellaria: Rhabdocoela) and five cocoon types of Fecampiidae from the deep sea.pp 069-078 .
• List of papers resulting in whole or in part from the Galathea Deep-Sea Expedition.pp 079-079 .
• Plates 06-08

Volume 16 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1985

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• WINGSTRAND, KARL GEORG: On the anatomy and relationships of recent Monoplacophora.pp 007-094 ..
• Plates 01-06
• Plates 07-12
• TENDAL, OLE SECHER: Xenophyophores (Protoza Sarcodina) in the diet of Neopilina galatheae (Mollusca, Monoplacophora).pp 095-098
• Plate 13
• LÜTZEN, JØRGEN: Rhizocephala (Crustacea: Cirripedia) from the deep sea.pp 099-112 ..
• Plate 14
• GRYGIER, MARK J.: Two species of Dendrogaster (Crustacea: Ascothoracida) parasitic in porcellanasterid starfishes.pp 113-120 ..

Volume 17 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 1995-96

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• KIRKEGAARD, JØRGEN B.: Bathyal and abyssal polychaetes (errant species).pp 007-056
• KIRKEGAARD, JØRGEN B.: Bathyal and abyssal polychaetes (sedentary species I).pp 057-078 .
• TENDAL, OLE SECHER: Synoptic checklist and bibliography of the Xenophyophorea (Protista), with a zoogeographical survey of the group.pp 079-102 .
• List of papers resulting in whole or in part from the Galathea Deep-Sea Expedition.pp 103-104

Volume 18 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 2000

• Contents.pp 001-006 ..
• NIELSEN, JØRGEN G. & NIGEL R. MERRETT: Revision of the cosmopolitan deep-sea Genus Bassozetus (Pisces: Ophiliiedae) with two new species.pp 007-056 .
• Plate 01
• HOLTHE, TORLEIF: Bathyal and abyssal Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) (sedentary species II).pp 057-068
• VERESHCHAKA, ALEXANDER L.: Revision of the genus Sergia (Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata: Sergestidae): Taxonomy and distribution. (pp 069-207)pp 069-136 ..
• VERESHCHAKA, ALEXANDER L.: Revision of the genus Sergia pp 137-207 ..
• Plates 02-05

Volume 19 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 2002

• REVISION OF THE INDO-PACIFIC SPECIES OF NEOBYTHITES (TELEOSTEI, OPHIDIIDAE), WITH 15 NEW SPECIES By JØRGEN G. NIELSEN Contents .pp 001-009, Material and methods ..pp 009-010, Genus Neobythites ..pp 007-012, Key to Neobythites species .pp 013-101, Acknowledgments pp 102-104, Literature .p 105, pp 001-105 ..

Volume 20 - Galathea Report Copenhagen 2005

• DEEP-SEA CHIROSTYLID AND GALATHEID CRUSTACEANS (DECAPODA, ANOMURA) FROM THE INDO-PACIFIC, WITH A LIST OF SPECIES By KEIJI BABA. Abstract, Contents. pp 001-006, Introduction. pp 008-013, Acknowledgments. .pp 014-014, pp 001-014 ..
• DEEP-SEA CHIROSTYLID AND GALATHEID CRUSTACEANS (DECAPODA, ANOMURA) FROM THE INDO-PACIFIC, WITH A LIST OF SPECIES. Systematic account. Family Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892. pp 014-066
• DEEP-SEA CHIROSTYLID AND GALATHEID CRUSTACEANS (DECAPODA, ANOMURA) FROM THE INDO-PACIFIC, WITH A LIST OF SPECIES Family Galatheidae Samouelle, 1819. pp 066-207 ..
• DEEP-SEA CHIROSTYLID AND GALATHEID CRUSTACEANS (DECAPODA, ANOMURA) FROM THE INDO-PACIFIC, WITH A LIST OF SPECIESA list of Indo-Pacific deep-sea species occurring in the depths exceeding 200 meters. Family Chrirostylidae Ortmann, 1892. pp 207-232 ..
• DEEP-SEA CHIROSTYLID AND GALATHEID CRUSTACEANS (DECAPODA, ANOMURA) FROM THE INDO-PACIFIC, WITH A LIST OF SPECIES Family Galatheidae Dana, 1852. pp 232-308 .
• DEEP-SEA CHIROSTYLID AND GALATHEID CRUSTACEANS (DECAPODA, ANOMURA) FROM THE INDO-PACIFIC, WITH A LIST OF SPECIESReferences. pp 308-317