Aplidium spitzbergense Hartmeyer, 1903

Sanamyan, Nadya, 2017, Shallow-water Ascidians from Matua Island (central Kuril Islands, NW Pacific), part 2, Zootaxa 4337 (1), pp. 121-131 : 129

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4337.1.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FBB53EC0-D112-4099-BD74-9B8556521A22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049258

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C002878E-4C77-1F69-A1BD-6B83FB1EEDE9

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Aplidium spitzbergense Hartmeyer, 1903
status

 

Aplidium spitzbergense Hartmeyer, 1903

( Figures 5A View FIGURE 5 )

Material examined. Matua Island, Point Kluv, intertidal pool, 0 6.08.2017, one colony (#419).

Remarks. The species has characteristic small zooids with four rows of stigmata and five stomach folds. Photos of living colonies of this species show flat dirty-yellowish colonies with some amount of sand on surface and with large sessile common cloacal openings and double rows of zooids radiating from them. Existing photos ( Figure 5A View FIGURE 5 ) are not good and detailed organization of systems of zooids cannot be revealed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Enterogona

Family

Polyclinidae

Genus

Aplidium

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