Stolonica duploplicata Sluiter, 1913

Kott, Patricia, 2005, Novel Australian Polyzoinae (Styelidae, Tunicata), Journal of Natural History 39 (32), pp. 2997-3011 : 3004

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930500239702

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scientific name

Stolonica duploplicata Sluiter, 1913
status

 

Stolonica duploplicata Sluiter, 1913 View in CoL

Stolonica duploplicata Sluiter 1913, p 67 View in CoL .

Amphicarpa duploplicata: Kott 1985, p 244 View in CoL and synonymy.

Distribution

New record: Western Australia (NW Port Hedland , QM G308080 ). Previously recorded (see Kott 1985): Western Australia ( Montebello Is , Port Hedland , Cape Preston , Dampier Archipelago ), Torres Strait, Philippines. The newly recorded colony was trawled from 35 m in muddy sand .

Description

The newly recorded colony is large, with zooids adhering to one another along their sides although their only organic continuity appears to be through the thin basal stolons. The test is thin and paper-like and the siphon linings are black. Zooids are as previously described with two branchial folds on each side of the body, a short gut loop enclosing a single endocarp and loosely attached to the body wall by ligaments. Large clumps of small male follicles with short ducts are along each side of the midventral line. Female ovaries were not detected, although the specimens otherwise conform with previous descriptions.

Remarks

The absence of female gonads from this large specimen tends to confirm previous suggestions that gonads in this group of colonial styelids are variable (see Millar 1963).

QM

Queensland Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Stolidobranchia

Family

Styelidae

Genus

Stolonica

Loc

Stolonica duploplicata Sluiter, 1913

Kott, Patricia 2005
2005
Loc

Amphicarpa duploplicata:

Kott P 1985: 244
1985
Loc

Stolonica duploplicata

Sluiter CP 1913: 67
1913
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