Leptoclinides variegatus Kott, 2001

Kott, Patricia, 2005, New and little-known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (Part 3), Journal of Natural History 39 (26), pp. 2409-2479 : 2427

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930500087077
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scientific name	Leptoclinides variegatus Kott, 2001
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Treatment

Leptoclinides variegatus Kott, 2001 View in CoL

Leptoclinides variegatus Kott 2001, p 86 View in CoL ; 2004a, p 738; 2004b, p 2475.

Distribution

Previously recorded (see Kott 2001, 2004b): South Australia (Great Australian Bight, Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent, Investigator Strait). New record: South Australia (Kangaroo I., SAM E1717).

Description

The newly recorded colony is relatively thick. Zooids are seen as yellow points along each side of the canals that surround irregular to elongate zooid-free areas. Common cloacal apertures are randomly distributed sessile apertures on the top of slight surface elevations. The primary common cloacal canals extend the full depth of the zooids and sometimes extend into oesophageal and occasionally posterior abdominal canals. Spicules are evenly distributed throughout and never crowded. There is no superficial aspiculate layer of test.

Remarks

Colonies, spicules and zooids are as previously described.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Ascidiacea
Order	Aplousobranchia
Family	Didemnidae
Genus	Leptoclinides