Genus Chalina Grant 1861

Chalina fistulosa Kirk

H. B. Kirk Trans.N.Z.Inst., 43, 576 Fig. 3 (1911)

The solitary holotype is a dried specimen, and three merotype slide preparations also exist. Kirk illustrated only the microscopic anatomy, and so a figure of the macroscopic appearance of the holotype is given herewith; it shows the fistular processes of the upper surface to which Kirk referred when naming the species. The only specimen taken was cast up on Denham Bay Beach, Sunday Island (Kermadecs), coll. W. R. B. Oliver, July 27, 1908.