Diplosoma virens (Hartmeyer, 1909)

Hirose, Euichi, Iskandar, Budhi Hascaryo & Wardiatno, Yusli, 2014, Photosymbiotic ascidians from Pari Island (Thousand Islands, Indonesia), ZooKeys 422, pp. 1-10 : 7

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.422.7431

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scientific name

Diplosoma virens (Hartmeyer, 1909)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Aplousobranchia Didemnidae

Diplosoma virens (Hartmeyer, 1909) View in CoL Fig. 3G, H

Diplosoma viride Herdman, 1906

Leptoclinum calificiforme Sluiter, 1909

Leptoclinum varium Sluiter, 1909

Leptoclinum virens Hartmeyer, 1909

Specimens.

MZB. Asc. 00009

Habitat.

Basal parts on branching corals in back reef and reef flat.

Remarks.

Colonies were irregularly shaped sheets and entirely green due to Prochloron cells distributed within common cloacal cavities. Retractor muscle emerged from halfway along esophageal neck. The numbers of stigmata were 6 –6–6– 5. Some zooids had testes.