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Meseres

Ludwig, 1894

4 species

Fifteen or 16 Tentacles, Hydroporic canal travels just to the body wall but does not penetrate, the ventrum surrounded by a fringe? of simple small pedicels. Dorsally very small papillae, Gonadal tubules in two tufts one right, one left, anus ventral, tegument without calcareous bodies or spicules. (Perrier, 1902)

Body flattened, elongate, much broader than high, with a conspicuous marginal fringe defining the boundary of the ventral sole. Anus ventral. Tube (feet?) forming the lateral fringe around the ventral sole, but other wise arranged irregularly of the (?whole) body. Deposits lacking from the body wall. (HBF)

 

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