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I MUST of course accept Prof. McIntosh's interpretation of his own statement, and admit that he has found Molgula arenosa frequently in the stomachs of Cod and Haddock. This Ascidian differs from the majority of its class in having allocryptic habits, but I have not yet made a sufficient number of experiments to be satisfied as to its edibility. It has also been a considerable difficulty to me that the extensive investigations of Brook and Ramsay Smith lend no support at all to the opinion that this Ascidian forms an article of food for ground-feeding fish. In any case the matter, though of much interest, is not one for discussion here, since Molgula arenosa is never one of the “foreign substances attached to crabs.”
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GARSTANG, W. Foreign Substances attached to Crabs. Nature 41, 538 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041538c0
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