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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB94C3C11FF6B57CEBB233BA9" bold="true" box="[151,341,1670,1696]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="423">Molgula citrina</emphasis>
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and synonymy;
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Lambert
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2010
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.
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<paragraph id="8B8736DCB94C3C11FF6B5642B8A33A29" blockId="22.[151,725,1772,1824]" box="[151,725,1802,1824]" pageId="22" pageNumber="423">Station AB 181 (MNHN S3 MOL A 442; slide S3. 880).</paragraph>
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The single specimen
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in diameter has a thin tunic covered with sand. The body wall is thin with a musculature reduced to the siphons and short bundles radiating from each siphon (
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). There are 6 large oral tentacles with small ramifications of first order. The dorsal tubercle opens to the right in a C. The branchial sac has 7 folds on each side (
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). The formula on the right side is: E- 4-5-7-7-8-5-3- DL. The infundibula are divided at the top of the folds. The gut forms a long open loop (
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). The short stomach is covered by a dark brown hepatic gland. The anus has 2 lips. The kidney is ovoid (
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). The gonads (
<figureCitation id="13032A59B94D3C10FC3E51DFBE5C3DB9" box="[962,1066,151,176]" captionStart="FIGURE 24" captionStartId="25.[151,250,2010,2032]" captionTargetBox="[281,1318,830,1982]" captionTargetId="figure@25.[281,1318,830,1994]" captionTargetPageId="25" captionText="FIGURE 24. Molgula citrina. A, dissection, scale bar = 1mm; B, branchial sac; C, left gonad." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1458782/files/figure.png" pageId="23" pageNumber="424">Fig. 24A</figureCitation>
), one on each side, are made of a central ovary encircled and partly covered with numerous testis vesicles. The left gonad (
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) lies in the secondary gut loop and the right gonad is applied against the dorsal side of the kidney (
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). The oviduct is long and wide (
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). The ducts of groups of testis vesicles join in the centre of the ovary surface to make tubes protruding into the atrial cavity, one in the right gonad and 2 on the left gonad (
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) in the
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specimen. Specimens from
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and the Channel have been re-examined in comparison; the samples from Roscoff, of a smaller size than arctic specimens, are the same as those from Madibenthos and their identification as
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was ascertained by a genetic study (Shenkar &amp; Swalla 2010).
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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB94D3C10FF6B569DBB693AE2" bold="true" box="[151,287,2005,2027]" pageId="23" pageNumber="424">FIGURE 21.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C384D5FB94D3C10FED9569EBBDD3AE2" box="[293,427,2006,2027]" class="Ascidiacea" family="Pyuridae" genus="Pyura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stolidobranchia" pageId="23" pageNumber="424" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="vittata">
<emphasis id="B94CEACEB94D3C10FED9569EBBDD3AE2" box="[293,427,2006,2027]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="424">Pyura vittata</emphasis>
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. A, dissection; B, one specimen; C, gonad lobes and heart vessel. Scale bars A,B =1cm.
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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB9423C1FFF6B5680BB693AD7" bold="true" box="[151,287,1992,2014]" pageId="24" pageNumber="425">FIGURE 22.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB9423C1FFED95681BBDD3AD7" box="[293,427,1993,2014]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="425">Pyura vittata</emphasis>
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(stained). A, dissection; B, branchial sac. Scale bars = 1cm.
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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB9433C1EFF6B53B3BB693E18" bold="true" box="[151,287,763,785]" pageId="25" pageNumber="426">FIGURE 23.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB9433C1EFED953B4BBDD3E18" box="[293,427,764,785]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="426">Pyura vittata</emphasis>
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spinules of 2 specimens. Scale bars = 0.1mm.
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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB9433C1EFF6B5692BB563AF9" bold="true" box="[151,288,2010,2032]" pageId="25" pageNumber="426">FIGURE 24.</emphasis>
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. A, dissection, scale bar = 1mm; B, branchial sac; C, left gonad.
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<emphasis id="B94CEACEB9403C1DFF3B51D1BB413DA6" box="[199,311,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="427">M. citrina</emphasis>
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is recorded for the first time in the tropical western Atlantic. This species is widely distributed in the north-eastern and north-western Atlantic Ocean and in Arctic regions (
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,
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). It has been also recently found in the Pacific Ocean (
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) and can be considered as an invasive ascidian in the Caribbean region..
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