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<emphasis id="1AABF171756FFFB30A3B310113DF3542" box="[282,457,1122,1144]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Molgula setigera</emphasis>
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: 7, fig. 2, pl. 1, fig. 48;
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: 102104, fig. 21 AC, pl. VII D (synonymy).
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756FFFB30BB631BE138D35C9" box="[151,411,1245,1267]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Molgula setigera marioni</emphasis>
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, fig. 21 DE, pl. VII DE.
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: Six individuals; net; -37.9951 lat. -54.6975 long. (station 7);
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AD).
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All specimens share the characteristic shape and aspect of the species: they are ovoid and flattened dorsoventrally. The tunic, completely covered by a dense layer of sand, presents sparsely distributed long bristle-like projections mainly confined to the area around both apertures. The bigger specimen measured
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in diameter, while the smallest one only reached
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. There are from 16 to 20 oral tentacles of the third order placed in a single circle. The branchial sac has seven folds on each side, bearing from seven to 11 longitudinal vessels. No longitudinal vessels are found in between the folds. Irregular stigmata form approximately six infundibula along each fold. There is one sausage-like gonad on each side, dorsal to the gut loop and kidney. The ovaries concentrate in the center while the testes are distributed on the margins. Each gonad bears one long and wide oviduct that opens almost at the base of the atrial aperture. It can bend either dorsally or ventrally. The vas deferens is thin and long and also opens near the base of the atrial aperture, running parallel to and some distance away from the oviduct. The number of vas deferens found in our samples was extremely variable (
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AD): there were two specimens with only one vas deferens on each side; two individuals with two vas deferens on each side; one with two vas deferens on the right side but one vas deferens on the left side; one specimen with only one vas deferens on the right side but two on the left side; one with four vas deferens on the right side and only one on the left side; and one individual with four vas deferens on the right side and three on the left side.
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756FFFB30BE632C1132D3681" bold="true" box="[199,315,1954,1979]" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Remarks.</emphasis>
Based on the descriptions made by
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and the discussion by
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about the morphotype,
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proposed the existence of three different species based on the characterization of the gonads: (1)
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB2090535FB10F33195" box="[548,741,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Molgula setigera</emphasis>
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, with only one sperm-duct on each side and the oviduct bent dorsally; (2)
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20A0635DF13C631EE" box="[295,464,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Molgula robini</emphasis>
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, with many sperm-ducts on both sides and the oviduct bent dorsally; and (3)
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20AB23583104531CD" box="[403,595,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Molgula marioni</emphasis>
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, with only one sperm-duct on each side and the oviduct bent ventrally. The authors also state the correspondence of each species with a particular geographical area. However, our specimens showed a random combination of vas deferens on both sides of the body (
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AD). In sight of this new data, we propose that both
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20908342E10BF305E" box="[553,681,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">M. setigera</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB209FE342E1151305E" box="[735,839,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">M. robini</emphasis>
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are no longer treated as separate species. Instead, we suggest them to be considered as synonyms.
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We also found one individual with the oviducts bent ventrally (
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).
<bibRefCitation id="4C4E5092756EFFB20F2E34F7175F3096" author="Monniot, C. &amp; Monniot, F." box="[1039,1353,404,429]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" pagination="1 - 168" refId="ref13783" refString="Monniot, C. &amp; Monniot, F. (1983) Ascidies antarctiques et subantarctiques: Morphologie et Biogeographie. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 125, 1 - 168." type="journal article" year="1983">Monniot &amp; Monniot (1983)</bibRefCitation>
, on the finding of specimens with the oviducts bent ventrally in the SW Atlantic, proposed a re-colonization of
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20E3F34DA178A30F5" box="[1310,1436,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">M. marioni</emphasis>
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from the Sub-Antarctic Region (Crozet, Kerguelen and Marion Islands) to the Magellanic area. However, our data do not support that view. As
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, we consider that the position of the oviduct does not stand as a valid character to differentiate among the mentioned species, but a result of intra-specific morphological variation.
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We therefore propose the new synonymy:
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20984372B1146335A" box="[677,848,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Molgula robini</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20FEB372B16CC335A" box="[1226,1242,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">=</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20FF8372B178A3365" box="[1241,1436,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Molgula marioni</emphasis>
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=
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. The number of sperm-ducts and direction of the oviduct can no longer be considered reliable characters to distinguish among them. The range of distribution of
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<emphasis id="1AABF171756EFFB20E5C37F212E733F6" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">M. setigera</emphasis>
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is thus expanded, covering from off La Plata River (SW Atlantic) to the area around the
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Islands (Southern Ocean) and the Sub-Antarctic Islands Crozet, Kerguelen and Marion.
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This is the deepest record of the species, increasing its bathymetric register in
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