A chapter in the debate on chordate phylogeny. Unpublished papers by Francesco Todaro on a sense organ in the Tunicates

Ottaviani Alessandro

2022-01-01

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Abstract

In this essay we propose the edition of some unpublished papers of Francesco Todaro (1839–1918), at that time professor of human anatomy at the University of Rome; these papers collect the results of the research Todaro was carrying out on a sense organ in the Salps, which constitute an interesting chapter in the history of comparative embryol- ogy and morphology, in the framework of the debate on the phylogenetic relationships of chordates.