Additional records of bathyal ascidians (Tunicata) from the New Caledonia region Author Exbodi, Françoise Monniot text Zootaxa 2022 2022-10-12 5195 3 201 223 journal article 163383 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.3.1 64857dc9-9d69-49d4-be4b-f87c810e6018 1175-5326 7187776 44C449B1-1536-40BE-AB30-4D728A90EC30 Pharyngodictyon magnifili Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1991 Figure 1 Stations: SPANBIOS: CP 5217: 4 specimens . CP 5237: 1 specimen . The largest specimen has a spherical head 15mm in diameter on a narrow peduncle 20mm long ( Fig. 1A ). The tunic is vitreous with some encrusted sand. The apertures cannot be seen, and all zooids are contracted. Thoraces and abdomens are located in the head and the long post-abdomens extend inside the peduncle. The oral tentacles are thin, long, protruding out of the siphon ( Fig. 1B ). The branchial tissue has at least seven transverse bars with triangular dorsal languets. The stomach is elongated with longitudinal folds ( Fig. 1B ). The ovary is anterior to a clump of testis lobes. In one zooid two immature embryos are incubated in the thoracic cavity ( Fig. 1B ). One tadpole ( Fig. 1C ) was found free inside the colony head. It has three adhesive papillae in a line circled by very numerous ramified vesicles ( Fig. 1C ). Sensitive organs cannot be clearly seen. FIGURE 1 . Pharyngodictyon magnifili . A, colony, scale bar = 1cm. B, zooid. C. larva stained with hemalum. All characters of the SPANBIOS specimens well correspond to those already described from New Caledonia and figured in Monniot C. & Monniot F. 1991 ( Figs 7F ; 10 ).