. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 59 preserved colonies are generally pale grey or almost white, with a pattern of darker spots marking the positions of the zooids. A few slit-like common cloacal openings are present on the surface. All parts of the common test are crowded with spicules, which are present even in the most superficial layer, there being no bladder cells such as are often found in the uppermost layer of the test in didemnids. The spicules are mostly of a regular stellate form, reaching 40 fi
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 59 preserved colonies are generally pale grey or almost white, with a pattern of darker spots marking the positions of the zooids. A few slit-like common cloacal openings are present on the surface. All parts of the common test are crowded with spicules, which are present even in the most superficial layer, there being no bladder cells such as are often found in the uppermost layer of the test in didemnids. The spicules are mostly of a regular stellate form, reaching 40 fi in diameter and having from eight to twelve pointed conical rays in optical section (Text-fig. 12B). A few spicules were also seen consisting of bundles of very thin needle-like rays arranged in a stellate pattern, these spicules also being 30- 40 /i in diameter (Text-fig. 12 C). A system of common cloacal canals lies a little above the middle level of the colony. B 3 0^. Text-fig. 12. Didemnum trivolutum (St. WS 811): A, zooid; B, C, spicules. Zoom (Text-fig. 12 A). The thorax is about i-6 mm. long and the abdomen about i-o mm. The prominent oral siphon has six pointed lobes. A large part of the dorsal side of the thorax is exposed by the atrial opening which extends at least half the length of the thorax and often extends almost the whole length. On the anterior border the opening bears a short triangular languet («./.). There are large oval lateral thoracic organs with associated masses of small spicules. These organs occupy most of each side of the thorax. Branchial sac. There are about eleven long narrow stigmata in each of the four rows. The three dorsal languets are long, curved, and directed anteriorly. 8-2. 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 Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (
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