Aplidium opacum Kott, 1963

Kott, Patricia, 2006, Observations on non-didemnid ascidians from Australian waters (1), Journal of Natural History 40 (3 - 4), pp. 169-234 : 207-208

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930600621601
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7223020
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/011D87C1-FFD4-CD6A-1FCA-F9FBE332FDA3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aplidium opacum Kott, 1963
status

Treatment

Aplidium opacum Kott, 1963 View in CoL

Aplidium opacum Kott 1963, p 108 View in CoL and synonymy.

Distribution

Previously recorded (see Kott 1992a): Western Australia (Rockingham) ; South Australia (Great Australian Bight to Spencer and St Vincent Gulfs , Yorke Peninsula ); Tasmania (Fluted Cape); Victoria (Balnarring Beach, Westernport) ; New South Wales ( Port Hacking ). New record : Victoria ( Western Port ) .

Remarks

The newly recorded specimen has the characteristic zooids (with short abdomina and about 20 stomach folds) in crowded double rows along branching common cloacal canals. The species appears to be an Australian indigenous species known only from the temperate half of the continent.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Ascidiacea
Order	Aplousobranchia
Family	Polyclinidae
Genus	Aplidium