VITRUMIDAE, Kott, 2009

Kott, Patricia, 2009, Taxonomic revision of Ascidiacea (Tunicata) from the upper continental slope off north-western Australia, Journal of Natural History 43 (31 - 32), pp. 1947-1986 : 1963

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930902993708

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5217188

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scientific name

VITRUMIDAE
status

fam. nov.

Family VITRUMIDAE View in CoL new family

Type genus: Vitrum gen. nov.

The family is distinguished by its glassy, stalked colonies, separately opening zooids with three long rows of stigmata, short abdomina with gonads in the gut loop, a single large larva incubating in a thoracic brood pouch, long inverted tubular larval adhesive organs and a vegetative stolon. It is monotypic, the only species being Vitrum mjoebergi (Hartmeyer, 1919) the type species of the genus.

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