Some ascidians from Indonesian marine lakes (Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua)
Author
Monniot, Françoise
text
Zootaxa
2009
2106
13
40
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274849
eecca8e3-6355-42e3-be72-51494ecadcb8
1175-5326
274849
Didemnum ahu
Monniot & Monniot, 1987
(
Figures 1A
,
2
)
Didemnum ahu
Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1987
: 25
, fig. 6 A,B,C, pl. 1E;
Monniot F. & Monniot C., 2008
: 803
and synonymy.
Material.
Indonesia
. West
Papua
, Gam Island, Danau Hidden Gam marine lake,
00°26.959’S
–
130°30.071’E
, 0m,
10/XII/2007
, coll. L.J. Bell and L.E. Martin, DHG 0 50 (
MNHN
A2 DID C 588); West
Papua
,Gam Island, Danau Nine Gam marine lake,
00°26.970’S
–
130°29.149’E
,
0.5m
,
03/XII/2007
, coll. L.J.
Bell and L.E. Martin, DNG 0 54 (
MNHN
A2 DID C 586).
The very thin colonies (
Fig. 1A
) are white with small zooids and small larvae of
0.3mm
for the trunk. The spicules are irregular in size and shape, of 30µm for the largest; the fibrous structure of the rays obviously appears. The species was also previously recorded from a marine lake in
Palau
(
Monniot & Monniot 2008
).