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
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journal article
8063
10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.1
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Pyura curvigona
Tokioka, 1950
Figures 11E, F
#2655B, small specimen embedded in
Polyandrocarpa rollandi
colony (#2655A); body in tunic
2 cm
tall,
2.2 cm
wide. Long iridescent siphonal spines up to about
211 µm
. Rectum swollen, anus with many rounded lobes. Liver greenish, dark. Amphipod in branchial sac.
Widely distributed in tropical western Pacific:
China
,
Hong Kong
,
Indonesia
,
Singapore
,
Vietnam
,
Australia
,
Palau
,
Truk
, Majuro,
Japan
,
Okinawa
,
Guam
.
Detailed references with illustrations:
Tokioka (1950
,
1967
),
Millar (1975)
,
Kott & Goodbody (1982)
,
Kott (1985)
,
Cole & Vorontsova (1998)
, Monniot F. (2009b),
Lee
et al
. (2013)
. Other references:
Tokioka & Nishikawa (1975)
,
Nishikawa (1984)
,
Kott (1992)
,
Zheng (1995)
,
Lambert (2003)
,
Lee
et al
. (2016)
.