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
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1175-5326
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Polycarpa argentata
(
Sluiter, 1890
)
#3799B, black warty tunic, heavily overgrown by
Botrylloides
sp. (#3799A), anemones, and barnacles;
5.5 cm
long x
3.5 cm
wide in tunic. V shaped dorsal tubercle. Single very large endocarp in gut curve. Anus with many short rounded lobes. Dark brown body wall with numerous small very dark gonads.
#3827B, one large,
5 cm
x
5 cm
in tunic but longer than wide out of tunic.
Widely distributed in the tropical west Pacific:
Indonesia
,
Philippines
,
Singapore
,
Taiwan
,
Vietnam
,
Guam
,
Palau
,
Australia
, Gilbert & Marshall Is.,
New Caledonia
,
Mozambique
.
References with detailed descriptions and illustrations:
Tokioka (1950
,
1970
as
P. iwayamae
n.sp.
),
Kott (1985)
, Monniot C. (1987b, 2002), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (1996), Monniot F. (2010),
Lee
et al
. (2013)
. Other references: Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2001),
Lambert (2003)
,
Kott (2008)
,
Lee
et al
. (2016)
.