Lissoclinum punctatum Kott, 1977

Lambert, Gretchen, Lee, Serina Siew-Chen & Teo, Serena Lay-Ming, 2021, Ascidians collected during the 2013 Singapore Strait International Marine Biodiversity Workshop, Zootaxa 4933 (1), pp. 1-38 : 6

Lissoclinum punctatum Kott, 1977

Figure 2E, F

#2629, colonies small, green, soft and slimy, with small globular spicules mostly in a dense white cluster around each zooid, as well described by Kott (1980, 2001), Monniot F. (1992) and Su et al. (2013). As with all Lissoclinum species there is a single testis and straight sperm duct. Zooids very contracted.

Distribution: Indonesia, Singapore. Fiji, Australia, Palau, New Caledonia.

Additional references: Kott (1981, 1982, 1998); Hirose et al. (2014), Lee et al. (2016).

Figures

FIGURE 2. A: Didemnum psammatodes; B: Euherdmania cf. digitata; C, D: Diplosoma simile; E, F: Lissoclinum punctatum. Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B, 6 mm; D, 5 mm; E, 5 mm; F, 0.4 mm.