Antarctic Ascidians (Tunicata) of the French-Australian survey CEAMARC in Terre Adélie Author Monniot, Françoise Author Dettai, Agnès Author Eleaume, Marc Author Cruaud, Corinne Author Ameziane, Nadia text Zootaxa 2011 2817 1 54 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.277174 18da0afb-302a-4912-9e86-fbbdebc414a6 1175-5326 277174 Polycitoridae Cystodytes antarcticus ? Sluiter, 1912 Sluiter, 1912 : 460. Monniot & Monniot 1983 : 36 and synonymy. Tatian et al. 2005 : 209. Station: 5. A single damaged colony 5 cm in length and 1 cm thick was collected at 211 m depth. The vitreous translucent tunic contains poorly calcified spicules, some in flat disks but others only represented by needles. The general anatomy corresponds to that of the genus; however no gonads or larvae are present so the species is provisionally assigned to the species C. antarcticus . One sequence for specimen A3 CYS 136 (BOLD: ASCAN014-10). No close hit in BOLD (best: 80.03%). This species was previously recorded from the Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula down to 250 m .