. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian museum, Sydney, Tunicata. PREVIOUS to the publication of the Reports upon the scientific results of the "Challenger" Expedition, comparatively little was known as to the Tunicata of the Australian seas. Some few species had been named and partly described by Savigny, Quoy and Gaimard, Stinipson, J. D. Macdonald, and Heller; but few of these were sufficiently characterised and figured to be really " known " to science. Savigny (1816) described Si<« austral is in considerable detail. Quoy
. Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian museum, Sydney, Tunicata. PREVIOUS to the publication of the Reports upon the scientific results of the "Challenger" Expedition, comparatively little was known as to the Tunicata of the Australian seas. Some few species had been named and partly described by Savigny, Quoy and Gaimard, Stinipson, J. D. Macdonald, and Heller; but few of these were sufficiently characterised and figured to be really " known " to science. Savigny (1816) described Si<« austral is in considerable detail. Quoy and Gaimard (1834) gave a very insufficient account of various Tunicata which had been found in Australian seas by the French exploring expedition in "; Stiinpson (1855) named and very briefly described half a dozen species of Simple Ascidians from Port Jackson. Heller (1878) figured and described, with but little anatomical detail, about twelve species of Australian Simple Ascidians from some of the museums of Europe. But our most interesting contributions are due to Dr. J. D. Macdonald (1859) who, while serving as surgeon on board one of 's ships in Australian seas, found and described the remarkable forms Chondrostackiis sp., Perophom Hutchisoni, Diplosoma Raijncri, Caesira parasitica, C. ficus, and C. pellucula, the last three being species of Molfjula. Some of these older species are, however, so imperfectly charac- terised that it is difficult to recognise them or define them in our modern system of classification. The naturalists of the "Challenger" Expedition collected about '28 species of Simple Ascidians and 14 species of Compound in the Australian seas, nearly all of them new to Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Australian Museum; Herdm
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