Ascidians collected during the 2013 Singapore Strait International Marine Biodiversity Workshop
Author
Lambert, Gretchen
University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor WA 98250, USA.
Author
Lee, Serina Siew-Chen
0000-0001-9326-0941
St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227. & serina. lee @ nus. edu. sg; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9326 - 0941
serina.lee@nus.edu.sg
Author
Teo, Serena Lay-Ming
0000-0002-3309-4715
St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227. & tmsteolm @ nus. edu. sg; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3309 - 4715
tmsteolm@nus.edu.sg
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-18
4933
1
1
38
journal article
8063
10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.1
8ebe62fc-b086-459e-b9fd-8a75ded875c7
1175-5326
4547842
56476487-ABC9-4C1C-A73F-D39E55DB9005
Ecteinascidia nexa
Sluiter, 1904
NEW RECORD
Figure 6
B–D
#3859, single zooid, about
3mm
in length, possibly immature; yellow in life, color faded in formalin. Semi-prostrate, attached by most of ventral side, the anterior end curved upward; network of basal stolons issuing from posterior ventral side. About 20 rows of stigmata. Muscles cover about half the body on the left, most of the body wall on the right. Longitudinal vessels mostly complete, a few are incomplete. Agrees morphologically in every aspect with the detailed description and figures in
Kott (1985)
. No gonads.
Distribution:
Indonesia
,
Fiji
,
Australia
,
Philippines
,
Ponape
, Solomon Is.,
New Caledonia
,
Mozambique
,
Micronesia
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Palau
.
Other detailed references:
Kott (1981
but no illustration),
Nishikawa (1986)
, Monniot C. (1987a as
E. aequale
, 1991a
, 1997), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2008).