Ascidonia flavomaculata ( Heller, 1864 )
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Ascidonia flavomaculata ( Heller, 1864) View in CoL
Pontonia flavomaculata Heller, 1864: 51 View in CoL (type locality: Adriatic Sea).
Ascidonia flavomaculata View in CoL – Fransen 2002: 215-227, figs
137-147, pls 7, 8.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Lebanon. Rmaïlé , 40 m, in Ascidia mentula Müller, 1776 , 2.IX.1993, collected by Bitar, 1 ♂ pocl. 2.8 mm ; 1 non-ovigerous ♀ pocl. 3.8 mm (MNHN-Na 15216).
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The species has been recorded from NE Atlantic from Morocco to the Gulf of Guinea and from the western Mediterranean as far east as the Aegean Sea. This is the first record of the species from the eastern Mediterranean.
The species is known to associate with various species in the Cionidae and Ascidiidae .
Ascidonia miserabilis ( Holthuis, 1951) View in CoL ( Fig. 1 View FIG )
Pontonia miserabilis Holthuis, 1951: 148 View in CoL , pl. 47, figs d-i (type locality: off Vieques, Puerto Rico).
Ascidonia miserabilis View in CoL – Fransen 2002: 227-236, figs 148-154.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guadeloupe. Anse de Baille , Argent face sud, date unknown, in Ascidia interrupta Heller, 1878 , 1 ♂ pocl. 1.7 mm ; 1 ovigerous ♀ pocl. 1.7 mm (MNHN-Na 8228).
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Both specimens with all pereiopods detached. The largest minor chela, probably belonging to the male specimen as the chelae are relatively larger in males than in females compared to the postorbital carapace length, is different from those described by Fransen (2002) in which the fingers of the minor chela possess “several indistinct small teeth in proximal part of concave cutting edges”. The dactylus as well as the fixed finger of the largest minor chela have one distinct proximal tooth ( Fig. 1 View FIG ). The smaller minor chela, probably of the female, has the dactylus with one distinct proximal tooth and the fixed finger with one distinct proximal tooth followed by few indistinct teeth proximally.
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Ascidonia flavomaculata ( Heller, 1864 )
Fransen, Charles H. J. M. 2006 |
Ascidonia flavomaculata
FRANSEN C. H. J. M. 2002: 215 |
Ascidonia miserabilis
FRANSEN C. H. J. M. 2002: 227 |
Pontonia miserabilis
HOLTHUIS L. B. 1951: 148 |
Pontonia flavomaculata
HELLER C. 1864: 51 |