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VII.—Report on the Tunicata collected during the Cruise of H.M.S. “ Triton ” in the Summer of 1882

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

W. A. Herdman
Affiliation:
Professor of Natural History in University College, Liverpool

Extract

This collection was sent to me for examination some months ago by Mr Murray. It may be conveniently divided into two very natural groups:—

1. Ascidiacea, including the forms dredged or trawled from the bottom of the sea.

2. Thaliacea, including the free-swimming pelagic forms captured by the tow-net at or below the surface.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1883

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page 93 note * See “Postscript,” page 114.

page 95 note * Oversigt over de fra Danmark og dets nordlige Bilande kjendte Ascidiœ Simplices. Vidensk. Meddel, Nat. For., Kjöbenhavn, 1880, p. 415Google Scholar.

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page 101 note * In Heller's figure they are about one-fourth, of the breadth of the mesh.

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page 101 note ‡ As will be pointed out in the following description, there are a number of details, especially in the branchial sac, in which these “ Triton ” specimens differ from the accounts of Doliolum denticulatum given by Keferstein and Ehlers (Zoologische Beiträge, 1861) and by Grobben (Arbeiten aus dem Zoolog. Instit. der Univ. Wien, 1882). As, however, they agree with those authors' descriptions in the more important anatomical features, and as they could not be referred to any other known species, I prefer to consider them as a variety of Doliolum denticulatum. It is improbable that they are an undescribed species, since they are apparently so common in the North Atlantic. Doliolum denticulatum is probably rather a variable form.

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page 104 note † Zoologisehe Beiträge, pi. ix. figs. 1 and 2.

page 105 note * Loc. cit., p. 16.

page 105 note † Loc. cit., p. 57.

page 105 note ‡ Loc. cit., p. 16, and pi. i. fig. I.

page 102 note § Grobben has figured a similar arrangement in the case of the asexual forms of the same species (Loc. cit., pi. v. figs. 34, &c).

page 106 note * Possibly the cavity (n.a in the figures) represents merely the opening of the duet from the neural gland into the dorsal tubercle of the Asoidiacea, while the spirals (d.t, in PI. XVIII. fig. 11) indicate the sense-organ, which I believe the dorsal tubercle to have formerly been (see Proe. Roy. Soo. Edin., p. 144, 1882-83.

page 107 note * Loc. cit., p. 9.

page 108 note * Loc. cit., p. 58.

page 109 note * Phil. Trans., 1851.

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