Discovery reports (1962) Discovery reports discoveryreports30inst Year: 1962 DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 127 Occurrence. St. 1686: Victoria, Australia, o m. External appearance. The single specimen measures 11 cm. long by 7 cm. high, and is heavily encrusted with hydroids and other organisms. The short wide siphons are visible externally. Internal structure. As the species has been described in detail by several authors (see particularly van Name, 1945; Kott, 1952; and Tokioka, 1953) I shall mention only a few important features of this specimen. Dorsal tubercle. The tubercle is a large conspicuo
Discovery reports (1962) Discovery reports discoveryreports30inst Year: 1962 DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 127 Occurrence. St. 1686: Victoria, Australia, o m. External appearance. The single specimen measures 11 cm. long by 7 cm. high, and is heavily encrusted with hydroids and other organisms. The short wide siphons are visible externally. Internal structure. As the species has been described in detail by several authors (see particularly van Name, 1945; Kott, 1952; and Tokioka, 1953) I shall mention only a few important features of this specimen. Dorsal tubercle. The tubercle is a large conspicuous cushion with a complicated sinuous slit (Text-fig. 52 A), similar to that illustrated by Kott (1952, fig. 124), for var. grandis. Branchial sac. There are fourteen folds on one side of the branchial sac, with up to thirty longi- tudinal bars on the larger folds, and several between folds.
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