Ecteinascidia imperfecta Tokioka, 1950

KOTT, PATRICIA, 2003, New syntheses and new species in the Australian Ascidiacea, Journal of Natural History 37 (13), pp. 1611-1653 : 1636

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110104258

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5260766

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scientific name

Ecteinascidia imperfecta Tokioka, 1950
status

 

Ecteinascidia imperfecta Tokioka, 1950 View in CoL

Ecteinascidia imperfecta Tokioka, 1950: 129 View in CoL ; 1967: 137; Kott, 1985: 92.

Ecteinascidia remanea Monniot and Monniot, 2001: 302 View in CoL .

Distribution. The species is now recorded from the Palau Is (its type locality) on three occasions, and from the northern Great Barrier Reef.

Remarks. The extent to which the internal longitudinal vessels in this species are interrupted appears to be variable, few being entire in specimens from the northern Great Barrier Reef (Kott, 1985) and some from the Palau Is (Monniot and Monniot, 2001); while in other specimens (including the types) only some were interrupted. Specimens from the Great Barrier Reef also appear to have more muscles on the right side of the body (see Kott, 1985: figure 37b), although those on the left are identical in all colonies. It is not likely that the absence of post pyloric divisions of the gut (said to characterize E. remanea ) are other than apparent. The gonads are described for the first time in newly recorded material from the Palau Is (Monniot and Monniot, 2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Phlebobranchia

Family

Perophoridae

Genus

Ecteinascidia

Loc

Ecteinascidia imperfecta Tokioka, 1950

KOTT, PATRICIA 2003
2003
Loc

Ecteinascidia remanea

Monniot and Monniot 2001: 302
2001
Loc

Ecteinascidia imperfecta

Tokioka 1950: 129
1950
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