Didemnum psammathodes (Sluiter, 1895)

Monniot, Françoise, 2016, Ascidians (Tunicata) of the French Guiana Expedition, Zootaxa 4114 (3), pp. 201-245 : 207

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068878

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scientific name

Didemnum psammathodes (Sluiter, 1895)
status

 

Didemnum psammathodes (Sluiter, 1895)

Figure 4 View FIGURE 4 C.

Station. SD15.

This brownish didemnid in thin colonies full of fecal pellets can settle on any kind of subtrate in all warm seas of the world. The small spicules are rare in the tunic and often limited to the area around the oral siphons. The small larvae 0.45mm ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 C) have 3 adhesive papillae and 4 pairs of ampullae as figured in Monniot F. (1983, fig 13, pl. 2B–E). Often recorded in harbours, this easily identified species is invasive.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

SubPhylum

Tunicata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Enterogona

Family

Didemnidae

Genus

Didemnum

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