Didemnum molle (Herdman, 1886)

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e120128

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13801201

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scientific name

Didemnum molle (Herdman, 1886)
status

 

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Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Didemnum molle ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata-Tunicata; class: Ascidiacea; order: Aplousobranchia ; family: Didemnidae ; genus: Didemnum ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Herdman, 1886); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: Vaavu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 2; maximumDepthInMeters: 489; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Forms urn-shaped structures with linked zooids that are anchored to the substratum. Approximately 14 cm in the longest dimension. Contains cyanobacteria in its tissue. Similar to Haliclona sp. (Fig. 281).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Aplousobranchia

Family

Didemnidae

Genus

Didemnum