Didemnum albopunctatum Sluiter, 1909
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930310001647334 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A1678788-FF8A-FF1A-8105-428CFE5DA6E4 |
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Carolina |
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Didemnum albopunctatum Sluiter, 1909 |
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Didemnum albopunctatum Sluiter, 1909
Didemnum albopunctatum Sluiter, 1909: 58 ; Kott, 2001: 148 and synonymy.
Distribution. New record: Western Australia (Rowley Shoals, WAM182.93). Previously recorded (see Kott, 2001): Queensland, Indonesia, Palau Is, New Caledonia.
Description. Flat encrusting sheet, which, in preservative, has minute dark zooids showing through evenly spaced stellate branchial apertures, their margins outlined in white spicules. Sessile, white-rimmed common cloacal openings are evenly spaced over the surface. Globular spicules to 0.06 mm are crowded throughout. The common cloacal cavity is thoracic.
Remarks. The dark-coloured zooids have been recorded previously in specimens from the Swain Reefs ( Kott, 2001). This is the first record of this species from NW Australia.
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Didemnum albopunctatum Sluiter, 1909
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Didemnum albopunctatum
| KOTT, P. 2001: 148 |
| SLUITER, C. P. 1909: 58 |