Lissoclinum fragile (Van Name, 1902)

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

Lissoclinum fragile (Van Name, 1902) Fig. 3L

Material examined.

CAGoM-0143, Lar 1, 12 m, 07-10-2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez.

Remarks.

We found colonies in a single location growing on algae. Lissoclinum fragile is reported from tropical and subtropical regions where it is very common in marinas on artificial substrates, which suggests that is has been extensively introduced while the original geographical distribution remains unknown.

Global distribution.

United States ( Van Name 1921; Lambert et al. 2005), Bermuda ( Van Name 1902; Berrill 1932), St Thomas ( Van Name 1921), Jamaica ( Goodbody 1993), Guadeloupe ( Monniot 1983a), Belize ( Goodbody 2004), Costa Rica ( Tokioka 1972), Curaçao (Millar 1962; Van Name 1924), Venezuela (Millar 1962; Rocha et al. 2010), Tobago ( Cole 2012), Brazil (Rodrigues et al. 1998; Rocha and Kremer 2005; Rocha and Faria 2005), Azores (Monniot 1974), Sierra Leone ( Monniot and Monniot 1994), Madagascar ( Vasseur 1970), Persian Gulf ( Monniot 1997), India ( Renganathan 1982), Philippines ( Tokioka 1967), Indonesia ( Lafargue and Vasseur 1989), Japan ( Tokioka 1954), New Caledonia ( Monniot 1992), Guam ( Monniot and Monniot 2001; Lambert 2003), and French Polynesia ( Monniot and Monniot 1987a; Monniot et al. 1985).