Diplosoma simile (Sluiter, 1909)

Hirose, Euichi, Iskandar, Budhi Hascaryo & Wardiatno, Yusli, 2014, Photosymbiotic ascidians from Pari Island (Thousand Islands, Indonesia), ZooKeys 422, pp. 1-10 : 6

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.422.7431

publication LSID

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scientific name

Diplosoma simile (Sluiter, 1909)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Aplousobranchia Didemnidae

Diplosoma simile (Sluiter, 1909) View in CoL Fig. 3C, D

Diplosoma midori (Tokioka, 1954)

Leptoclinum midori Tokioka, 1954

Leptoclinum simile Sluiter, 1909

Specimens.

MZB. Asc. 00007

Habitat.

Dead coral branch and coral limestone in reef flat and reef crest.

Remarks.

Colonies were irregularly shaped sheets and entirely green due to Prochloron cells distributed within the common cloacal cavities. Retractor muscle emerged from underside of thorax. The numbers of stigmata were 6 –6–6– 5. Some zooids had testes. Embryos were brooded in some colonies.