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THE TUNICATE FAUNA OF 

 AUSTRALIAN SEAS. 



The rich Tunicate Fauna of the Australian seas was first 

 exploited by Quoy and Gaimard who, in their account of 

 the animals collected during the voyage of the "Astrolabe," 

 named, figured, and briefly diagnosed 18 new species col- 

 lected at various points on the coast of Australia and New 

 Zealand. Since then fresh instalments of new species have 

 been added by Stimpson, Macdonald, Heller, Sluiter, and 

 Herdman ("Challenger" collection), so that now the known 

 Tunicate Fauna of Australia is probably larger than that of 

 any other area of equal size in other parts of the world. The 

 "Challenger' found 43 species in what may fairly be 

 regarded as Australian waters. Since then collections have 

 been made by Haddon, Willey, Semon, and others, in 

 addition to the important local collection of the Australian 

 Museum described in the previous pages. 



In the following list I have endeavoured to give a com- 

 plete record of the Tunicate Fauna of the Australian seas 

 so far as it is known to me. The sixty -three species 

 described and figured for the first time in the present 

 catalogue are marked with an asterisk. I have added the 

 localities, and, in the case of previously described species, 

 some reference to where a description or figure will be 

 found. In the case of species described in this work I have 

 added the page after the word Catalogue, so that the list 

 may serve also as a classified index to these species. 



