. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 82 Papers from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Tortugas. There is much confusion, among writers on the embryology of Salpa, as to the nature and homologies of the so-called " gill," which is in no way comparable to the gill-clefts of Doliolum and Pyrosoma and other Tunicata. If Salpa has gill-slits, it has only one on each side, and this is enormous, putting the pharynx into free communication with the cloaca or atrium. The so-called " gill " is homologous with the dorsal lamella of other tuni- cates. It is a rod-like or
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 82 Papers from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Tortugas. There is much confusion, among writers on the embryology of Salpa, as to the nature and homologies of the so-called " gill," which is in no way comparable to the gill-clefts of Doliolum and Pyrosoma and other Tunicata. If Salpa has gill-slits, it has only one on each side, and this is enormous, putting the pharynx into free communication with the cloaca or atrium. The so-called " gill " is homologous with the dorsal lamella of other tuni- cates. It is a rod-like organ, extending obliquely upward and forward from the middle line of the ventral surface in the region of the oesophagus to the middle line of the dorsal surface near and a little posterior to the ganglion, thus separating the pharynx from the atrium on the middle line, while the lateral portions of the pharynx are in free communication with the lateral regions of the atrium. There is, in Salpa, no recognizable bound- ary between the lateral atria and the median atrium, and it has seemed best, for this reason, to most writers on Salpa to call the whole atrial system the cloaca. The " gill" is nearly circular in cross-section; its anterior or pharyngeal surface consists of the ciliated pharyngeal epithelium of the dorsal lamella, while its side walls and posterior or cloacal surface consist of the ectodermal epithelium of the cloaca. The " gill " is hollow, lined. FlG. 2.—The aggregated Salpa pinnata in side view. with mesoderm, and its chamber is part of the body-cavity. It is in this chamber that the intestine of the solitary Cyclosalpa lies. While the solitary cyclosalpas agree in this respect, the aggregated ones differ greatly in the form and position of the intestine. In the aggregated .9. pinnata the intestine is long, as it is in the solitary form, and the anus is far forward, but the intestine is not in the gill, and it lies on the middle line of th
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