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
cf.
captiosa
#1208, pink juvenile. Peripharyngeal groove long, fairly narrow. Dorsal tubercle a long, narrow V. Not many primary oral tentacles, though including small ones about 27. Siphons dark, rest of body wall light. Dorsal ganglion very protuberant on outside of body as described by
Tokioka (1950)
. Endocarps numerous, scattered over entire body wall. Curve of gut short, closed, anus with many short rounded lobes. No gonads.
#1242, juvenile,
23 mm
long,
10 mm
wide measured across siphons in tunic. Dorsal ganglion protuberant between siphons. Has numerous small white patches on surface of body as in #1208. Single row of elongate sausage shaped gonads, 10 on left side, 14 on right side. Two tiny reddish stolidobranchs attached to tunic,
Polycarpa
sp. and a
Microcosmus
sp.
#4642, red juvenile on edge of rock, attached by entire left or ventral side;
18mm
long x
9mm
wide in tunic. Tunic thin, fragile, especially on attached left side. Atrial siphon in posterior third of body. Stomach long, furrowed, running anteroposteriorly. Series of small globular gonads developing in body wall.