Eusynstyela tincta Van Name, 1902
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068907 |
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Eusynstyela tincta Van Name, 1902 |
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Eusynstyela tincta Van Name, 1902
Station. CP 4386.
One colony incrusting a mass of barnacles contains a dozen of zooids at different stages of development. The surface tunic is thick, wrinkled and brown in formalin. The basal layer is colourless and transparent. The zooids are dorso-ventrally flattened with the body not strongly adhering to the tunic except at the level of the siphons and at the gonads. The polycarps are located in a peduncle of the body wall which penetrates into the basal tunic. The distinctive anatomical characters of this common species are the 4 branchial folds/side and one longitudinal vessel in the spaces between them, the long stomach with a dozen folds and a small caecum, a smooth edged anus, numerous endocarps, and a few polycarps on each side made of a globular ovary and a testis in 2 elongated vesicles.
Often recorded, E. tincta described from Bermuda has been collected in several parts of the Caribbean area and along the Brazilian coast ( Rocha & Costa 2005 and synonymy).
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