Pyura Molina, 1782

Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2001, Ascidians from the tropical western Pacific, Zoosystema 23 (2), pp. 201-383 : 344-345

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5391440

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scientific name

Pyura Molina, 1782
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Genus Pyura Molina, 1782 View in CoL

Pyura gangelion ( Savigny, 1816) View in CoL ( Figs 106 View FIG ; 108A View FIG ; 130B View FIG )

Cynthia gangelion Savigny, 1816: 90-147 . Type locality: Red Sea.

Halocynthia gangelion View in CoL – Sluiter 1905: 102, Djibouti.

Pyura gangelion View in CoL – Monniot C. 1973: 57, Red Sea.

Pyura (Halocynthia) sansibarica Michaelsen, 1908: 251 View in CoL , Zanzibar.

Pyura sansibarica View in CoL – Michaelsen 1918: 8, Red Sea. — Millar 1956: 929 Mozambique. — Vasseur 1969: 926, Madagascar.

Pyura obesa View in CoL – Hartmeyer 1919: 14, Australia. — Kott 1985: 315, Australia.

Pyura robusta Hartmeyer, 1922: 319 View in CoL . — Kott 1998: 185.

Pyura albanyensis Michaelsen, 1927: 193 View in CoL , Albany. — Hartmeyer & Michaelsen 1928: 435. — Monniot C. 1989: 492, fig. 8, pl. IIA, B, New Caledonia. — Monniot C. & Monniot F. 1991: 411, fig. 27D, F, New Caledonia. — Monniot F. & Monniot C. 1996: 263, fig. 58, Papua New Guinea.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Federated States of Micronesia. Pohnpei, North lagoon, Yusan-maru, permanently moored ship, 6°98.91’N, 158°17.53’E, 1 m, 14.X.1996 ( MNHN S2 PYU 385).

Maldives. N Male Atoll, Feydhoo Findhu Island, 4°12.88’N, 73°29.27’E, 2 m, 15.IX.1997 ( MNHN S2 PYU 383).

Mozambique. Ibo Island 1995; Djibouti 1996, coll. Monniot ( MNHN S2 PYU 388).

REMARKS

All synonym specimens have the same anatomical characters ( Fig. 106 View FIG ) whatever the ocean in which they were collected. Their external aspect may be variable. The species is generally dark brown-red, but in the Maldives it is black ( Fig. 130B View FIG ), with yellow stripes on the siphons. The siphonal spinules ( Fig. 108A View FIG ) are regularly arranged but of different sizes, small and larger ones intercalated.

The specific name P. gangelion has priority even if the specimens are frequently cited with other names.

The distribution of the species is especially wide in the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

PYU

Yunnan University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Stolidobranchia

Family

Pyuridae

Loc

Pyura Molina, 1782

Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude 2001
2001
Loc

Pyura robusta

KOTT P. 1998: 185
1998
Loc

Pyura albanyensis

HARTMEYER R. & MICHAELSEN W. 1928: 435
MICHAELSEN W. 1927: 193
1927
Loc

Pyura obesa

KOTT P. 1985: 315
HARTMEYER R. 1919: 14
1919
Loc

Pyura sansibarica

VASSEUR P. 1969: 926
MILLAR R. H. 1956: 929
MICHAELSEN W. 1918: 8
1918
Loc

Pyura (Halocynthia) sansibarica

MICHAELSEN W. 1908: 251
1908
Loc

Halocynthia gangelion

SLUITER C. P. 1905: 102
1905
Loc

Cynthia gangelion

SAVIGNY J. C. 1816: 147
1816
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