. Text-fig. 54. Molgula pedunculata Herdman: A, different forms of opening of the dorsal tubercle; B, different forms of gut (clear) and left gonad (stippled). Molgula falsensis Millar (Text-fig. 55) Molgula fakensis Millar, 1955, pp. 217-9, %• 4°- Occurrence. St. 91: False Bay, S. Africa, 35 m. External appearance (Text-fig. 55 A). The six specimens range from 8 by 8 mm. up to 13 by 7 mm. All of them are covered with adhering fragments of shell and grains of sand. Test. The test is thin, flexible and transparent and has a sparse coating of very fine hairs. Body wall. Muscles which radiate fro

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. Text-fig. 54. Molgula pedunculata Herdman: A, different forms of opening of the dorsal tubercle; B, different forms of gut (clear) and left gonad (stippled). Molgula falsensis Millar (Text-fig. 55) Molgula fakensis Millar, 1955, pp. 217-9, %• 4°- Occurrence. St. 91: False Bay, S. Africa, 35 m. External appearance (Text-fig. 55 A). The six specimens range from 8 by 8 mm. up to 13 by 7 mm. All of them are covered with adhering fragments of shell and grains of sand. Test. The test is thin, flexible and transparent and has a sparse coating of very fine hairs. Body wall. Muscles which radiate from the siphons extend only a short distance across the sides of the body; other muscles, oblique and circular, are very few, except round the siphons. Tentacles. There are about twenty-one oral tentacles, of which four or five are large and tri- pinnate. Only eight to ten tentacles were present in the type specimens (Millar, 1955). Dorsal tubercle. The C-shaped opening of the dorsal tubercle faces backwards and to the right (Text-fig. 55 B). 17

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