Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890 )

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 : 22

Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890)

#3799B, black warty tunic, heavily overgrown by Botrylloides sp. (#3799A), anemones, and barnacles; 5.5 cm long x 3.5 cm wide in tunic. V shaped dorsal tubercle. Single very large endocarp in gut curve. Anus with many short rounded lobes. Dark brown body wall with numerous small very dark gonads.

#3827B, one large, 5 cm x 5 cm in tunic but longer than wide out of tunic.

Widely distributed in the tropical west Pacific: Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, Guam, Palau, Australia, Gilbert & Marshall Is., New Caledonia, Mozambique.

References with detailed descriptions and illustrations: Tokioka (1950, 1970 as P. iwayamae n.sp.), Kott (1985), Monniot C. (1987b, 2002), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (1996), Monniot F. (2010), Lee et al. (2013). Other references: Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2001), Lambert (2003), Kott (2008), Lee et al. (2016).