Polycarpa cartilaginea (Sluiter, 1898)

A. Palomino-Alvarez, Lilian, Moreira Rocha, Rosana & Simoes, Nuno, 2019, Checklist of ascidians (Chordata, Tunicata) from the southern Gulf of Mexico, ZooKeys 832, pp. 1-33 : 1

Polycarpa cartilaginea (Sluiter, 1898) Fig. 4O

Material examined.

CAGoM-0010, Arn 1, 12 m, 19-03- 2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0176, Arc 1, 4 m, 19-03- 2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0364, CAGoM-0365, Arc 11, 7 m, 20-08- 2016, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0386, CAGoM-00468, Arc 4, 6 m, 22-08-2016, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0408, CAGoM-412, CAGoM-0420, CAGoM-0421, Arc 12, 6 m, 24-08- 2016, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0426, CAGoM-0479, Arc 7, 9 m, 25-08-2016, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0437, Acr 10, 12 m, 26-08- 2016, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez.

Remarks.

All the specimens from Arcas Cay Reef were found under large rocks with other species of ascidians ( Ascidia panamensis , Corella minuta and Ecteinascidia styeloides ).

Global distribution.

Belize ( Goodbody 2000), Panama ( Collin et al. 2005; Rocha et al. 2005), Curaçao (Millar 1962; Van der Sloot 1969; Goodbody 1984), Colombia ( Sluiter 1898), Guadeloupe (Monniot 1983), Martinique ( Monniot 2018b).