RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Tristram, The great Sahara, etc. CUL-DAR205.2.192. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1
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Tristram, H. B. 1860. The great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains. London.
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Rev. H. B. Tristram The Great Sahara 1860 p. 277
In Wed R'hir, an oasis in Grt. Sahara, going beneath level of Mediterranean, & associated with F. W. mollusca he found a Fish, the Haligenes Tristrami (Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1859 Dr. Günther) which belongs to "the strictly marine family of the Chromidæ".— Probably as suggested, left by drying up of Tertiary Sea known to have covered the Sahara.—
New way of Fish being rendered F. W. the water wd change gradually.—
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