Didemnum rubeum Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996

Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2001, Ascidians from the tropical western Pacific, Zoosystema 23 (2), pp. 201-383 : 271

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Didemnum rubeum Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996 View in CoL

Didemnum rubeum Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996: 164 View in CoL , figs 14C; 16, pl. 3A. Type locality: Micronesia .

Didemnum recurvatum View in CoL – Kott 1981: 174, Fiji.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Palau. West channel, 7°32.42’N, 134°28.37’E, 3 m, 11.XII.1997 ( MNHN A2 DID.C 456).

Mariana Islands. Guam, Merizo Channel, 1 m, 23.II.1999, coll. G. Lambert ( MNHN A2 DID.C 487).

REMARKS

Kott (1981: 174) described from Fiji ascidians very similar to D. rubeum . She assigned them to Didemnum recurvatum Sluiter, 1909 . This cannot be retained, as Sluiter’s type ( ZMA TU 474, stn 250) comprises several flat colonies less than 1 cm in diameter in which a few extracted zooids show two testis lobes and a straight sperm duct. Thus Sluiter’s species belongs to the genus Lissoclinum . Kott’s specimens, or a part of them, probably are D. rubeum .