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Israel, Eilat,
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Individuals have a somewhat spherical body with long siphons, up to
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in diameter. The test is thick and hard with embedded sand, shell fragments and rubble, grayish in living specimens (
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). The tunic is unusually thin on both left and right sides of the body of the
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because it was in the middle of a clump of other stolidobranchs and tightly adherent to them, with only the siphons and upper part of the body extending above the clump.
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF988703FF797AF544305FF7" bold="true" box="[151,281,964,988]" pageId="2" pageNumber="63">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
External appearance of
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scale bar 1 cm.
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Both siphons are long, with 4 lobes, and directed anteriorly. The body wall is tightly attached to the whitish tunic lining. The bright orangered siphons retain their color in formalin. The body musculature is well developed, the predominant pattern consisting of strong circular muscles around the siphons and body wall, overlying numerous wide longitudinal muscles covering the entire body wall (
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). About 37 longitudinal muscle bands originate from each siphon and extend ventrally and posteriorly, while numerous bands circle the base of each siphon. The longitudinal muscles cross each other and interweave over the body forming a meshwork; posteriorly there are also numerous narrower muscles also interweaving to form a third irregular layer of musculature (
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There are about 20 branchial tentacles sparsely branched in two orders (
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); there are no atrial tentacles. A large velum is present at the base of both siphons and the siphonal lining is thick, white and irregularly ridged (
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), without any siphonal spines. The stigmata, diagnostic of the genus, are transversely oriented in longitudinal rows and the longitudinal vessels cross them (
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). The branchial sac has six high folds on each side with 1221 longitudinal vessels on the folds and 410 between the folds. The branchial formula of the
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specimen (approximately 3.2 cm in width) is:
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in width) is:
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The dorsal lamina is composed of numerous short languets; the dorsal tubercle is C-shaped opening to the left (
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) inside a large
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with brown pigments (in preserved material) in the peribranchial area. The stomach is short, with numerous longitudinal folds. The liver, about equal in size to the stomach, consists of a large mass of glandular yellowish tubules (
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). On the secondary intestinal curve there are 2 very small endocarps, one on the outer side and one on the inner side opposite the liver. The short rectum is attached directly and firmly to the branchial sac (as in
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF988703FD247E5446B95B55" box="[714,912,1893,1918]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="63">B. transversaria</emphasis>
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). The anus is somewhat flattened into two halves, the rim with about 12 very small lobes and 4 slightly larger lobes (
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). There is one gonad on each side comprised of 5 large overlapping blocks of tissue closely but narrowly connected (
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). The left gonad lies diagonally above the secondary gut loop with the last lobe close to the rectum (
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,
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). The right gonad lies diagonal to the ventral line (
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). A short oviduct and sperm duct, with small brown pigmented spots on them, terminate from the distal end of each gonad, opening close together near the base of the atrial siphon.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8B825F1EFF998702FF797FED470E5B18" blockId="3.[151,1436,1756,1843]" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">
<emphasis id="B949830CFF998702FF797FED44335ADF" bold="true" box="[151,282,1756,1780]" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF998702FECC7FED44CE5AD8" box="[290,487,1756,1779]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Boltenia yossiloya</emphasis>
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A.
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Left side;
<emphasis id="B949830CFF998702FD2C7FED47F35ADF" bold="true" box="[706,730,1756,1780]" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">B.</emphasis>
right side;
<emphasis id="B949830CFF998702FCB87FED46475ADF" bold="true" box="[854,878,1756,1780]" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">B.</emphasis>
muscles arrangement on the left side body wall;
<emphasis id="B949830CFF998702FA6C7FED40B55ADF" bold="true" box="[1410,1436,1756,1780]" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">D.</emphasis>
oral tentacle;
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oral siphon inner side;
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stigmata shape. Arrow pointing to: or—oral siphon, at—atrial siphon, gl—gut loop and gd—gonad, scale bar 4 mm.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FF797BE744305EC5" bold="true" box="[151,281,726,750]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FECE7BE744CD5EC6" box="[288,484,726,749]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Boltenia yossiloya</emphasis>
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A.
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dorsal tubercle;
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FD147BE7463B5EC5" bold="true" box="[762,786,726,750]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">B.</emphasis>
liver and stomach, scale bar 2.5 mm.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FF797C5A443159A8" bold="true" box="[151,280,1387,1411]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FECE7C5A44CD59A9" box="[288,484,1387,1410]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Boltenia yossiloya</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FE057C5A470E59A8" bold="true" box="[491,551,1387,1411]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">
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</emphasis>
rectal region.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3270C95FF9E8707FF2A7C9A46985F79" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="67" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B825F1EFF9E8705FF2A7C9A418E5AE0" blockId="4.[151,1436,1451,2037]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FF2A7C9A441459EE" bold="true" box="[196,317,1451,1477]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Remarks.</emphasis>
This new species has some characters in common with
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FC397C9D41C859EE" box="[983,1249,1452,1477]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Boltenia transversaria</emphasis>
(
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)
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, from Indonesian waters: the body tightly attached to the tunic (not actually a valid feature distinguishing species), the number of branchial folds, and the dorsal lamina description. However, the branchial formulas are quite different. According to
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, his
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FD187F2D469C5A1E" box="[758,949,1564,1589]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">B. transversaria</emphasis>
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specimen of
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(similar in size to our
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) had 5 broad branchial folds per side each with 10 longitudinal vessels and a smaller fold on each side of the endostyle with only 4 longitudinal vessels, and 47 vessels between the folds, a much different and smaller formula than for
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FD877FBD47D25A8E" box="[617,763,1676,1701]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">B. yossiloya</emphasis>
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. The formulas given by
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and
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are not really comparable because the animals they examined were much smaller.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FF287FE744895AC4" box="[198,416,1750,1775]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Boltenia yossiloya</emphasis>
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has strongly developed musculature (
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) similar to Tokiokas description but in contrast to Sluiters remark on the weak musculature of
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FC777FCD41765B3E" box="[921,1119,1788,1813]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">B. transversaria</emphasis>
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except on the siphons.
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FA6C7FCD44225B11" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">B. yossiloya</emphasis>
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has a C-shaped dorsal tubercle opening to the left in contrast to the longitudinally ovate slit described for
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FED77E7744D15B74" box="[313,504,1862,1887]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">B. transversaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
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,
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and
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;
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did not include a description of this character.
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FD7D7E5D464C5BAE" box="[659,869,1900,1925]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Boltenia echinata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9E8705FC997E5A41075BAE" author="Linnaeus, C." box="[887,1070,1899,1925]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" refId="ref2630" refString="Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema naturae. Stockholm, 3 vols. (Ascidians only in vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 1087, 1089, 1294,1295,1319)." type="book" year="1767">Linnaeus, 1767</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
which is a cold water species has eight branchial folds and long bushy tunic spines (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9E8705FCD87EA041295B80" author="Van Name, W. G." box="[822,1024,1937,1963]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" pagination="1 - 476" refId="ref3232" refString="Van Name, W. G. (1945) The North and South American ascidians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 84, 1 - 476." type="journal article" year="1945">Van Name 1945</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9E8705FBE07EA041F35B80" author="Nishikawa, T." box="[1038,1242,1937,1963]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" pagination="25 - 170" refId="ref2965" refString="Nishikawa, T. (1991) The ascidians of the Japan Sea. II. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 35, 25 - 170." type="journal article" year="1991">Nishikawa 1991</bibRefCitation>
).
<taxonomicName id="4C3D249DFF9E8705FB1E7EA044C15BFB" authority="Monniot and Monniot, 1977" authorityName="Monniot and Monniot" authorityYear="1977" class="Ascidiacea" family="Pyuridae" genus="Boltenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stolidobranchia" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hirta">
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FB1E7EA040B25B81" box="[1264,1435,1937,1962]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Boltenia hirta</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9E8705FF797E8744C15BFB" author="Monniot, C. &amp; Monniot, F." box="[151,488,1974,2000]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" pagination="305 - 327" refId="ref2862" refString="Monniot, C., Monniot, F. (1977) Quelques ascidies abyssales du Sud-Ouest de l'Ocean Indien. Comite National Francais des Recherches Antarctiques, 42, 305 - 327." type="journal article" year="1977">Monniot and Monniot, 1977</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
is an abyssal Indian Ocean species that has recently been assigned to the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C3D249DFF9E8705FF797EED47815BDE" authority="(Sanamyan and Sanamyan 2006)" baseAuthorityName="Sanamyan and Sanamyan" baseAuthorityYear="2006" box="[151,680,2011,2037]" class="Ascidiacea" family="Pyuridae" genus="Hemistyela" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stolidobranchia" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9E8705FF797EED44325BDE" box="[151,283,2012,2037]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="65">Hemistyela</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9E8705FEC47EEA47895BDE" author="Sanamyan, K. E. &amp; Sanamyan, N. P." box="[298,672,2011,2037]" pageId="4" pageNumber="65" pagination="307 - 344" refId="ref3038" refString="Sanamyan, K. E., Sanamyan, N. P. (2006) Deep water ascidians (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) from the North and Western Pacific. Journal of Natural History, 40, 307 - 344." type="journal article" year="2006">Sanamyan and Sanamyan 2006</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9F8704FF797AD344315FD1" bold="true" box="[151,280,994,1018]" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9F8704FECE7AD244CD5FD1" box="[288,484,995,1018]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Boltenia yossiloya</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9F8704FE057AD3470E5FD1" bold="true" box="[491,551,994,1018]" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A27A3E77FF9F8704FE057AD3470E5FD1" box="[491,551,994,1018]" pageId="5" pageNumber="66" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
Left side of body: en- endocarps, gl- gut loop, gd- gonad. Scale bar 5 mm.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8B825F1EFF9F8704FF797E8645DD5BD8" blockId="5.[151,1437,1975,2035]" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9F8704FF797E8644305BE4" bold="true" box="[151,281,1975,1999]" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9F8704FECE7E8944CA5BE4" box="[288,483,1976,1999]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
<taxonomicName id="4C3D249DFF9F8704FECE7E8944C95BE4" baseAuthorityName="Millar" baseAuthorityYear="1962" box="[288,480,1976,1999]" class="Ascidiacea" family="Pyuridae" genus="Boltenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stolidobranchia" pageId="5" pageNumber="66" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="africana">Boltenia africana</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9F8704FE077E86472A5BE4" bold="true" box="[489,515,1975,1999]" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">A.</emphasis>
right side gonad;
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9F8704FD2B7E8647F45BE4" bold="true" box="[709,733,1975,1999]" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">B.</emphasis>
left side gonad with a part of the gut loop. Photos courtesy of Dr. M. Rius.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8B825F1EFF9C8707FF2879A941475EC9" blockId="6.[151,1436,152,850]" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">
The most closely related species to
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FD8279A947D35C9A" box="[620,762,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. yossiloya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
appears to be
<taxonomicName id="4C3D249DFF9C8707FC4979A9400A5C99" authority="(Millar, 1962)" baseAuthorityName="Millar" baseAuthorityYear="1962" box="[935,1315,152,178]" class="Ascidiacea" family="Pyuridae" genus="Boltenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stolidobranchia" pageId="6" pageNumber="67" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="africana">
<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FC4979A9415C5C9A" box="[935,1141,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Boltenia africana</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9C8707FB6879A940325C99" author="Millar, R. H." box="[1158,1307,152,178]" pageId="6" pageNumber="67" pagination="113 - 221" refId="ref2833" refString="Millar, R. H. (1962) Further description of South African ascidians. Annals of the South African Museum, 46, 113 - 221." type="journal article" year="1962">Millar, 1962</bibRefCitation>
)
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described from the southern coasts of
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, which has a similar tunic, dorsal tubercle, number of folds and longitudinal vessels, and musculature arrangement. We were not allowed to borrow the
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of
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FA6C79D345D35D0A" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(SAM
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) from the South African Museum but Dr. M. Rius from the University of
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Town kindly examined and photographed it for us, and they are clearly separate species. The
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measures 4.5 cm in the tunic. The gonads of the two species have a very dissimilar appearance (compare
<figureCitation id="1306439BFF9C8707FB2E7863402D5D47" box="[1216,1284,338,364]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="5.[151,255,1975,1999]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,1069,1954]" captionTargetId="figure-66@5.[151,1436,1069,1954]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 7. Boltenia africana. A. right side gonad; B. left side gonad with a part of the gut loop. Photos courtesy of Dr. M. Rius." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5361416" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5361416/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
with
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); indeed, the flattened undulating gonads of
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FD467849461A5DBA" box="[680,819,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
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resemble those illustrated for
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FB437849405C5DBA" box="[1197,1397,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. transversaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9C8707FF7978AC44665D9C" author="Tokioka, T." box="[151,335,413,439]" pageId="6" pageNumber="67" pagination="205 - 221" refId="ref3188" refString="Tokioka, T. (1960) Contributions to the Japanese ascidian fauna XVII. Ascidians found in the benthonic samples dredged in the Ariake Sea 1957 - 58. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 8, 205 - 221." type="journal article" year="1960">Tokioka (1960)</bibRefCitation>
.
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FEB578AC44F65D9D" box="[347,479,413,438]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
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has a much more closed and narrow gut loop with the left gonad lying very close to the secondary loop. In
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FE2E78F347675DF0" box="[448,590,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. yossiloya</emphasis>
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the gut loop is broadly open until the rectal region which lies very close to the esophagus (
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), and the left gonad does not lie closely in the secondary gut loop as described for
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FA6D78D945D35E0D" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
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(and also clearly visible in
<figureCitation id="1306439BFF9C8707FDAC7B3C47AE5E0C" box="[578,647,525,551]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="5.[151,255,1975,1999]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,1069,1954]" captionTargetId="figure-66@5.[151,1436,1069,1954]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 7. Boltenia africana. A. right side gonad; B. left side gonad with a part of the gut loop. Photos courtesy of Dr. M. Rius." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5361416" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5361416/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
) but is rather above it and diagonal (
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). There are two small endocarps on the secondary intestinal loop in
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FD277B0346725E60" box="[713,859,562,587]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. yossiloya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) which are apparently not present in
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FA6C7B0344295E5A" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FEDA7B6944E25E5A" box="[308,459,600,625]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. yossiloya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the anus has lobed margins versus the apparently plain margin of
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FAE17B6940B25E5A" box="[1295,1435,600,625]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
mentioned by
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and Rius (pers. comm.). In
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FCD37B4C46ED5EBD" box="[829,964,637,662]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the largest oral tentacles are tripinnate (
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC22EFFF9C8707FF717B9344115E97" author="Millar, R. H." box="[159,312,674,700]" pageId="6" pageNumber="67" pagination="113 - 221" refId="ref2833" refString="Millar, R. H. (1962) Further description of South African ascidians. Annals of the South African Museum, 46, 113 - 221." type="journal article" year="1962">Millar 1962</bibRefCitation>
) while in
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FE557B93477B5E90" box="[443,594,674,699]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. yossiloya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
there is only secondary branching (those of the
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were not described by Rius).
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<emphasis id="B949830CFF9C8707FE6F7BF9472D5ECA" box="[385,516,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">B. africana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also has not been recorded from tropical coral reefs.
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<paragraph id="8B825F1EFF9C8707FF287BDC46985F79" blockId="6.[151,1436,152,850]" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">These specimens were collected only from artificial substrates which makes it difficult to determine whether the species is endemic to the Gulf of Eilat. However, due to its external camouflaged appearance it may be very difficult to spot this animal in the natural environment.</paragraph>
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