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4. On Rhabdopleura, a New Genus of Polyzoa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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Professor Allman described a new genus of Polyzoa, obtained by the Rev. A. M. Norman and Mr J. Gwyn Jeffreys, from deep-sea dredgings in Shetland.
Its cœnœcium consists of a branched tube, partly adherent and partly free, the free portion forming tubes of egress, through which the polypides move in the acts of exsertion and retraction. In the walls of the adherent portion a rigid chitinous rod is developed along their attached side, and to this rod the polypides are connected from distance to distance each by a flexible cord or funiculus.
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