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(
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location:
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(
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, sandy bottom, coll.
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; sheltered lagoon, boat ramp,
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Colonies are small (to
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maximum diameter) soft, low cushions. The test is cloudy, a brownish colour in preservative. Spicules are in irregular thin patches in the surface test and line the floor of the thoracic common cloacal canals. They are globular, to
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diameter. However, spicules are present only in some colonies, others are aspiculate.
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<paragraph id="910436E6FFF8FF92FF36F9F39805CE43" blockId="32.[125,1172,1502,1685]" lastBlockId="33.[138,1185,1146,1491]" lastPageId="33" lastPageNumber="1195" pageId="32" pageNumber="1194">Zooids are small, the thorax and abdomen about equal lengths. The branchial aperture is divided into six rounded, conspicuous lobes on a short branchial siphon. The atrial aperture is on a short siphon halfway down the thorax and directed horizontally. Although the exact number is obscured by contraction, about 10 stigmata per half row are in the three rows halfway down the pharynx. A strong, tapering retractor muscle of variable length projects from the top half of the oesophagus, but depending on the contraction of the zooid, it may appear to originate from the posterior end of the thorax.</paragraph>
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Figure 5. (A, B)
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(QM G328001 syntype): (A) thorax; (B) larva. (C)
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(QM G323351 holotype): colony. (D, E)
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(QM G308804 holotype): (D) thorax; (E) abdomen. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A, B, D, E), 1 cm (C).
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Small, spherical larvae are being incubated in the basal test. The tail is wound threequarters of the way around the
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diameter trunk. Three lateral ampullae are on each side of the three anteromedian adhesive organs.
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFF9FF92FF24F9A29B9ECD75" box="[138,233,1548,1572]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="1195">Remarks</emphasis>
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Superficially, the small, soft, cloudy colonies resemble those of
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFF9FF92FC39F9939FD6CD04" box="[919,1185,1597,1621]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="1195">Trididemnum miniatum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="F52A4B17FFF9FF92FF24F9F39A7DCD24" author="Kott P" box="[138,266,1629,1653]" pageId="33" pageNumber="1195" pagination="615 - 621" refId="ref20992" refString="Kott P. 1977. Algal supporting didemnid ascidians of the Great Barrier Reef. In: Taylor DL, editor. Proceedings of the International Coral Reef Symposium, Miami: Uni. of Miami. Volume 1, Biology. p 615 - 621." type="book chapter" year="1977">Kott, 1977</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFF9FF92FEEBF9F09AC3CD24" box="[325,436,1629,1653]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="1195">T. clinides</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="F52A4B17FFF9FF92FE12F9F39937CD24" author="Kott P" box="[444,576,1629,1653]" pageId="33" pageNumber="1195" pagination="615 - 621" refId="ref20992" refString="Kott P. 1977. Algal supporting didemnid ascidians of the Great Barrier Reef. In: Taylor DL, editor. Proceedings of the International Coral Reef Symposium, Miami: Uni. of Miami. Volume 1, Biology. p 615 - 621." type="book chapter" year="1977">Kott, 1977</bibRefCitation>
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. However, the cloudiness of the test is not indicative of embedded symbionts, nor are there any symbiotic cells in the common cloacal cavity, and the larval trunks lack the coat of the symbiotic cells present in the former two species. Further,
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFFAFF91FF49FF049A04CB90" box="[231,371,169,193]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">T. miniatum</emphasis>
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has a sessile atrial aperture rather than the laterally orientated atrial siphon of the present species and it has smaller spicules.
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFFAFF91FCA2FF679882CBB0" box="[780,1013,201,225]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">Trididemnum clinides</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="F52A4B17FFFAFF91FC52FF679F0CCBB0" author="Kott P" box="[1020,1147,201,225]" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196" pagination="615 - 621" refId="ref20992" refString="Kott P. 1977. Algal supporting didemnid ascidians of the Great Barrier Reef. In: Taylor DL, editor. Proceedings of the International Coral Reef Symposium, Miami: Uni. of Miami. Volume 1, Biology. p 615 - 621." type="book chapter" year="1977">Kott, 1977</bibRefCitation>
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is distinguished by its large spicules. Species that, like the present one, have a small midthoracic, horizontal atrial siphon, three pairs of larval lateral ampullae, black squamous epithelium, 10 or more stigmata per half row, and eight coils of the vas deferens are
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFFAFF91FBD4FE859B9ECA32" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">T. areolatum</emphasis>
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(distinguished by its large stellate spicules) and
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(also distinguished by its large stellate spicules).
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Spicule distribution, the vas deferens and atrial siphon in
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFFAFF91FCE3FE2398BACAF5" box="[845,973,396,420]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">T. pusillum</emphasis>
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are similar to the present species. Further, although
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remarks that larvae for
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFFAFF91FBD4FE039BAFCAB4" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">T. pusillum</emphasis>
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are not known, a larva from the
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is shown in
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, Figure 18d) and this also is similar to the present species. Despite these similarities, these species are distinguished by their spicules, which, in
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, have relatively few pointed spiky rays.
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In
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFFAFF91FF15FD9E9A51C916" box="[187,294,560,583]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">T. tectum</emphasis>
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, globular spicules are in the same position, in the floor of the cloacal cavity, as the present species, but spicules and zooids are larger, zooids have fewer coils of the vas deferens and the larvae have more lateral ampullae.
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<emphasis id="A3CFEAF4FFFAFF91FCD6FDDE9F27C9D9" box="[888,1104,624,648]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">Trididemnum nobile</emphasis>
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is occasionally aspiculate, has a similar (but larger) larval trunk, a posteriorly orientated atrial siphon and its spicules (when present) are stellate.
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<paragraph id="910436E6FFFAFF91FF36FD7F9A1BC83A" blockId="34.[125,1173,137,875]" pageId="34" pageNumber="1196">The present species, with its small soft cloudy colonies, occasional small globular spicules around the common cloacal cavity, black squamous epithelium, horizontally orientated atrial siphon, small zooids with relatively numerous vas deferens coils and stigmata, and small larvae with three pairs of lateral ampullae appears to be a previously undescribed species.</paragraph>
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