Lissoclinum midui Hirose and Hirose, 2011
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https://doi.org/ 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-19 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12822195 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/13473026-FFCD-612D-A667-EDE5FB668347 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Lissoclinum midui Hirose and Hirose, 2011 |
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Lissoclinum midui Hirose and Hirose, 2011 View in CoL
Specimens: NMNS-8141-010 (Gongzibi), -011 (Jialeshuei).
Small colonies comprising 10 or fewer zooids often attached to or partly fused with neighbor colonies ( Fig. 3C View Fig ). Colonies were entirely green due to Prochloron cells distributed in the tunic. There was an unknown organ beneath the thorax of each zooid ( Fig. 3D View Fig ). This character is unique to L. midui . Tunic spicules were globular ( Fig. 3E View Fig ). The type locality of the species was the out reef off Shinri-hama (Kumejima Is., Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan) ( Hirose and Hirose 2011), and it has not been recorded from any other site in the Ryukyus. In Taiwan, this species was first recorded from Lyudao ( Hirose et al. 2014), and the present report is the second distribution record. It is uncertain why the distribution of L. midui is sporadic, but it is possible that microhabitats in Kumejima Is., Lyudao, and the southeast coast may have shared features.
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