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XVI.—The Tunicata of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–1904

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

W. A. Herdman
W. A. Herdman
Affiliation:
Professor of Zoology in the University of Liverpool.
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So far as regards number of individuals, and their size, this is one of the largest collections of Ascidians brought back in recent years from Antarctic seas. It contains almost exactly the same number of species of Ascidiacea (Ascidiæ Simplices + Ascidiæ Compositæ) as the Discovery collection—viz. fifteen or sixteen—but whereas in the latter collection nearly all the species were represented by single specimens, in the Scotia collection most species can show long series of individuals—in all there are about two hundred specimens, as against the thirty-three brought home by the Discovery.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , 1912 , pp. 305 - 320
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1912

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References

page 306 note * National Antarctic Expedition: Natural History, vol. v., “Tunicata,” 1910.

page 308 note * “Die Holosomen Ascidien des magalhaenisch-südgeorgisclieii Gebietes,” Zoologica, Bd. xii., Heft 31, Stuttgart, 1900, p. 109.

page 309 note * Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1905, No. 6, p. 472; and Expéd. Antarct. Franc. (Charcot), “Tuniciers,” p. 40.

page 310 note * Report National Antarctic Exped.: Nat. Hist., vol. v., “Tunicata,” London, 1910.

page 310 note † The whole of Scotia Bay is termed Station 325; consequently, depths vary.

page 314 note * Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistor. Museum, xii., Hamburg, 1904.

page 317 note * In the new edition of the “Tunicata” of Bronn's Tier-Beichs.

page 317 note † See Herdman, , Descriptive Catalogue of the Tunicata of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W., 1899, p. 81.Google Scholar On the plate (Pel. I. figs. 9–12) it is referred to as “Polyclinum depressum.”

page 317 note ‡ See Herdman, ibid., p. 75.