Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890 )

Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, Zootaxa 2561 (1), pp. 1-29 : 19-20

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5311240

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DB1648-FFA5-372E-8B82-F8DAFBEAC3C3

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890 )
status

 

Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890) View in CoL

( Figure 20B View FIGURE 20 , 22)

Styela argentata Sluiter,1890: 340 View in CoL .

Polycarpa argentata: Monniot F. & Monniot C. 1996:247 View in CoL Fig. 52, pl. 8h and synonymy; 2001: 322 Fig. 128A; Monniot C. 2002: 79 Fig. 11.

Material. Coll. N.J. Pilcher et al., Viet Nam, Con Dao Isl. , Con Son Isl., Da Trang ,, 0°3943’N– 106°34.37’E, 5m, 23/VII/2008, 0PHG 1603-Z ( MNHN S1 About MNHN POL. B 553 )

The specimens 7 cm in length are covered with various epibionts ( Fig. 20B View FIGURE 20 ). The brown tunic is thick but flexible. The body wall is opaque and brown. A dozen oral tentacles are intercalated with smaller ones. The branchial sac has 4 folds on each side, the first against the dorsal lamina is reduced ( Fig. 22) and disappear posteriorly. The gut is linked to the body wall by only a few trabeculae. Three endocarps lie in the gut loop. Numerous round polycarps are distributed on the body wall. The gonads are embedded in the body wall, male and female papillae are joined and not protruding.

The species is widely distributed, in the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Stolidobranchia

Family

Styelidae

Genus

Polycarpa

Loc

Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890 )

Monniot, Françoise 2010
2010
Loc

Styela argentata

Sluiter, C. P. 1890: 340
1890
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