MARINE POLYZOA. 

 BY ALEXANDER GRAY, MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION, 



MlLLPORT, CUMBRAE. 



CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE : Hincks, "British Marine Polyzoa." 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



B. =Jas. Bryce, LL.D., Arran and other Clyde Islands. 



A. G: = Alexander Gray. 



J. F. G. = James F. Gemmill, M.A., M.D., The University, Glasgow. 



H. = Geo. C. Hyndman, "Dredging records from near Sanda L, off Mull of 

 Kintyre," (Brit. Assoc. Rep., 1842, p. 70). 



J. R. H. =Prof. J. R. Henderson, " A dredging trip to Arran," (Scott. Natur- 

 alist, vol. ii., N. S., 1885-86, p. 5). 



W. A. H. = Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., "Invertebrate Fauna of Lamlash 

 Bay " (Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin. Trans., vols. v. vi., 1880. 



W. E. H. = W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E., "Deeper water Fauna of Clyde Sea- 

 Area," (Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.}, vol. xx., p. 244, 1890). 



T. H. = Thomas Hincks. 



H. P. = When placed after initials or name of an authority, implies that the 

 record is to be found in Hincks' Brit. Mar. Polyzoa, 1880. 



L. =Rev. David Landsborough and his son, Arran, its Topography, Natural 

 History, etc., 1875. 



M.=MS. records of S. Y. " Medusa," published by Thos. Scott, F.L.S. in 

 15th Ann. Rep. Fishery Bd. for Scotland, pt. iii, p. 156, 1896. 



A. M. N.=^Rev. Canon A. M. Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S. 



R.=The late David Robertson, LL.D., F.G.S. 



M. B. S. = Marine Biological Station, Millport, Cumbrae. 



W.T.= William Thompson, Belfast. 



C. = common, r. =rare, litt. = littoral, 1. w. m. = low water mark, t. m. = tide 

 marks. 



GROUP A. ECTOPROCTA. 



ORDER GYMNOLAEMATA. 

 Sub-order I. Cheilostomata. 



Fam. Aeteidae. 



Aetea anguina, Linn. Ayrshire (L.), H. P. 



A. recta, Hincks. Rather r. ; Lamlash (T. H.), H. P. ; off M. B. S., Cumbrae 



15 f. (A. G.). 



A. truncata, Landsb. Lamlash B. 10-20 f. (W. A. H.), H. P. 



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