. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. Text-fig. 2. S. gerlachei («) Solitary form, lateral view. Length 27 mm. (i) Aggregate form, dorsal view. Length 17 mm. (From Van Beneden, 1913.) Note. The aggregate form shown here is atypical in lacking an anterior protuberance of the test; probably an artefact due to wear. Registration NUMBER. British Museum (Nat. Hist.), i960. i. Body proportions. Total length 63 mm., body length 56 mm., nucleus length 11 mm. Muscle-fibre number. 48 fibres in M. IV. Stolon. Stolon with one ful
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. Text-fig. 2. S. gerlachei («) Solitary form, lateral view. Length 27 mm. (i) Aggregate form, dorsal view. Length 17 mm. (From Van Beneden, 1913.) Note. The aggregate form shown here is atypical in lacking an anterior protuberance of the test; probably an artefact due to wear. Registration NUMBER. British Museum (Nat. Hist.), i960. i. Body proportions. Total length 63 mm., body length 56 mm., nucleus length 11 mm. Muscle-fibre number. 48 fibres in M. IV. Stolon. Stolon with one fully differentiated block of buds consisting of 174 blastozooids, each I mm. long. Evidence that one block, at least, has already been released (see p. 25). Stolon extends for- ward to level of M. II-III. Allotype. A specimen of the aggregate form 23 mm. long taken in a i m. net towed obliquely (N looB) from 109 m. to the surface at Discovery station 1296, 69° o6-6' S., 131° 42-6' W. on i March 1934- Registration NUMBER. British Museum (Nat. Hist.), i960. Body proportions. Total length 34 mm., body length 23 mm., nucleus length 6 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 (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography of Great Britain; Great Britain. Colonial Office. Discovery Committee. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press
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