Fritillaria borealis sargassi Lohmann, 1896

Karunarathne, Krishan D. & Croos, M. D. S. T. De, 2021, Pelagic tunicates (Appendicularia and Thaliacea) of Sri Lanka: two first records with an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5067 (3), pp. 352-376 : 354-355

Fritillaria borealis sargassi Lohmann, 1896

Fritillaria sargassi Lohmann 1896: 51–53 , Pl. 8 Figs. 1 , 8, 10, 12.

Fritillaria borealis f. sargassi: Lohmann 1905: 361 , Pl. 12 Fig. 12. Lohmann & Bückmann 1926: 169. Tokioka 1940: 15; 1960: 355, 361–363, Fig. 1 . Bückmann 1969: 8: Fig. 12b 2.

Fritillaria borealis f. ritteri: Lohmann & Bückmann 1926: 169. Tokioka 1940: 15.

Fritillaria borealis truncata sargassi + Fritillaria borealis truncata ritteri: Lohmann 1931: 140, 141. Tokioka 1940: 16. Fritillaria borealis sargassi: Fenaux 1993: 63 , 70, 84; 1998: 303, 304.

Material examined. Eleven specimens ( MDAFWU 2020 /384–394), St.205, January 2020 .

Description. Trunk 1–1.5 mm long, roughly eight-shaped, with the well-elongated posterior part. Mouth with the prominent upper lip. Ciliated rings of the branchial passages are circular. The endostyle is short and the digestive tract axis is oblique. Gonads asymmetrically arranged; testis Y-shaped and the spherical ovary placed on the left branch. Tail short, with a broad fin and without amphichordal cells; tail musculature broad, especially in the proximal part, ending abruptly.

Global distribution. The Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea ( Fenaux et al. 1998); Australian waters ( Thompson 1948). Type locality: The equatorial stream to Cape Verde.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Sampling localities of pelagic tunicates within the three regions of Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) denoted by BBR (Bay of Bengal Region), LSR (Laccadive Sea Region) and IOR (Indian Ocean Region). Source of the map: Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Flanders Marine Institute (https://www.marineregions.org/). Remarks of each sampling station (St.) indicated by open circles are in Table 1