. The British Tunicata; an unfinished monograph. Sea squirts; Tunicata. 42 BRITISH TUNICATA. pale reddish or yellowish white. Individuals (fig. 108, b) orange red. Systems not distinctly ; (Forbes <$• Hanleij.} " Individuals for the most part oval, varying from saffron to red in colour, each being doubly perforated with small crimson orifices having somewhat swollen margins similarly coloured and with six distinct radii forming as it were so many teeth around ; (Gaertner, transl.) Diameter of the mass from one-half to three-quarters of an inch (12-18 mm.).
. The British Tunicata; an unfinished monograph. Sea squirts; Tunicata. 42 BRITISH TUNICATA. pale reddish or yellowish white. Individuals (fig. 108, b) orange red. Systems not distinctly ; (Forbes <$• Hanleij.} " Individuals for the most part oval, varying from saffron to red in colour, each being doubly perforated with small crimson orifices having somewhat swollen margins similarly coloured and with six distinct radii forming as it were so many teeth around ; (Gaertner, transl.) Diameter of the mass from one-half to three-quarters of an inch (12-18 mm.). Halt.—On Fucm palmatus (Gaertner}. Investing Fucus xi'rrafnx (Thompson). On roots of Laminaria digitata (Cocks). On the test of Cijntlda mamillaris (Jeffreys). On the carapace of Maia (Norman).. FIG. 108.—Distoma variolosum. (After Gaertner, loc. cit.) a, a colony, natural size; b, a single individual, enlarged. ENGLAND.—Lulworth Cove, Dorset (Jeffreys). Coast of Cornwall (Gaertner). Falmouth, Cornwall (Cocks). SCOTLAND.—Firth of Clyde (Norman). IRELAND.—Belfast Bay, Antrim (Thompson}. CHANNEL ISLANDS.—Guernsey (Norman). First record.—Gaertner, 1774. This species was described in Vol. II of the present monograph (p. 1-38) as a Tlujlacinin. It is however the type species of the genus Dixtoma, and could not be removed to a genus more recently founded and differing moreover in having the apertures 4-lobed.]. 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 Alder, Joshua, 1792-1867; Hancock, Albany, 1806-1873; Hopkinson, John, 1844-1919; Norman, Alfred Merle, 1831-1918; Embleton, Dennis, 1810-1900. London, Printed for the Ray society
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