Aplidium cf. grisiatum Kott, 1998 NEW RECORD

Figure 4F

#3845, small brownish-gray colony, dimensions about 1 x 1.5 cm; two rounded small cormidia. Tunic transparent, though encrusted and embedded with sand, except uppermost layer with few or no sand grains. Dorsal tubercle a prominent bump. Atrial languet contracted but apparently without side branches and with a rounded tip. Preserved zooids are a pale pink, about 5.5 mm long, with about 16 rows of stigmata. About eight or nine longitudinal stomach ridges very regular and parallel, plus a few irregular, not extending full length of stomach. No larvae.

Distribution: Australia, Palau.

References: Kott (1992, 1998, 2002a), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2001).