Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T04:15:04.720Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Report on the Tunicata of Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Walter Garstang
Walter Garstang
Affiliation:
Jesus College, Oxford; Berkeley Fellow of The Owens College, Manchester.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The southern shores of the English Channel have long been famous for the wealth of their Tunicate fauna, having furnished material in abundance for the classical researches of Milne-Edwards, Giard, and Lacaze-Duthiers. The Channel Islands also have been repeatedly visited by English zoologists, and have amply supplied those among them who have been in search of Tunicate treasures. Probably the peculiar tidal conditions of this part of the Channel are especially favourable to a rich development of littoral forms; but, as the work of Montagu, Couch, Clark, Alder, Gosse, Cocks, Bate, and Norman sufficiently testifies, the Devon and Cornish coasts of England can lay claim to an almost equally luxuriant shore fauna, the rocky bays and long sheltered estuaries being especially wealthy in this respect. During my residence at Plymouth I found that the Tunicata were among the best represented groups of the fauna, and, as I devoted considerable attention to the search for rare or new, as well as for well-known forms, I trust that a classified report upon the local representatives of the group will not be without its usefulness to other investigators.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , May 1891 , pp. 47 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1891

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 49 note * Professor Herdman's views upon the classification of the Tunicata will form the subject of a comprehensive memoir in the Transactions of the Linnæan Society, to which Society they were recently communicated.

page 51 note * On the Genus Ecteinascidia, &c, loc. cit.

page 51 note † One of the individuals in Milne-Edwards' figure of Clavelina producta (l. c., pl. ii, fig. 3) exhibits a post-abdominal peduncle of some extent.

page 53 note * The preliminary description given by Professor Herdman of S. australis has no reference to the exact character of its common test.

page 55 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., xx, 1853, p. 308.Google Scholar

page 55 note † Milne-Edwards' Observations, 1. c, p. 267, pl. ii, fig. 3.

page 55 note ‡ E. van Beneden, Les genres Eeteinascidia, Rhopalæa et Sluiteria; note pour servir à la classification des Tuniciers, Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sci., &c, Bruxelles (iii), xiv, 1887, pp. 43, 44.Google Scholar

page 56 note * See Arch. Zoot. Exp., x, 1882Google Scholar, Notes et Revue, p. xli.

page 60 note * Roule, Rev. des Esp. de Phallusiadées de Provence, Rec. Zool. Suisse, iii, pl. xiv, fig. 14.

page 60 note † Ed. van Beneden, Sur les genres Ecteinascidia, 'c, 1. c., p. 35.

page 61 note † This has not yet been established for Tylobranchion, but is probably the case.

page 62 note * I greatly regret that my efforts to obtain a copy of Delia Valle's Contribuzioni have been unsuccessful up to the time of going to press, and I must express the same regret with regard to Lahille's Recherches sur les Tuniciers.

page 64 note † This condition exists in Polyclinum sabulosum (Labille, Comptes Rendus, cii, p. 1574), and is approached in Tylobranchion speciosum.

page 65 note * Herdman, , “Challenger” Report, vol. xiv, pt. xxxviii, p. 155.Google Scholar