Distaplia regina Kott, 1990

Lambert, Gretchen, Lee, Serina Siew-Chen & Teo, Serena Lay-Ming, 2021, Ascidians collected during the 2013 Singapore Strait International Marine Biodiversity Workshop, Zootaxa 4933 (1), pp. 1-38 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:56476487-ABC9-4C1C-A73F-D39E55DB9005

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4547886

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BB593765-FFAE-E736-FF6C-FD33FA96FBBE

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Plazi

scientific name

Distaplia regina Kott, 1990
status

 

Distaplia regina Kott, 1990 NEW RECORD

Figure 3B, C View FIGURE 3

#3850A, a single large flat colony was the only specimen collected, 8 cm across in largest width, growing on an algal blade; tunic in life brownish purple fading to pale pink in formalin, as mentioned by Kott (1990). Zooids in systems more or less circular. The four rows of stigmata lack parastigmatic vessels. Zooid thorax with longitudinal muscles only. Stomach smooth, but under high magnification is very minutely areolated. Largest larva almost 2 mm long, with four tiny rows of stigmata ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ), larva appears to have four adhesive papillae similar to one figured (but not commented on) by Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2001). In a slightly younger larva, only the typical three papillae are present, in a triangle.

Distribution: Australia, Palau.

References with detailed descriptions of the zooids: Kott (1990), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (1996, 2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Enterogona

Family

Holozoidae

Genus

Distaplia

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