Lissoclinum punctatum Kott, 1977

Su, Shih-Wei, Hirose, Euichi, Chen, Serina Lee Siew & Mok, Michael Hin-Kiu, 2013, Photosymbiotic ascidians in Singapore: turbid waters may reduce living space, ZooKeys 305, pp. 55-65 : 58

Lissoclinum punctatum Kott, 1977

Specimens examined.

NMNS-7027-007, ZRC-TUN-0005 and ZRC-TUN-0016 (Pulau Semakau, subtidal at depth 0.5 m), ZRC-TUN-0013 (St. John’s Island, subtidal at depth 0.5 m)

Colonies are irregularly shaped sheets about 2 mm thick (Fig. 2I). Globular spicules aggregate around each zooid, which is enclosed in a capsule of white spicules (Fig. 2J). Many Prochloron cells are distributed in both cloacal cavities and tunic cells (tunic phycocytes) (Fig. 2K; also see Hirose et al. 1996). We could not examine the zooids in further detail because of the shrinkage of the specimens. Kott (1982) reported this species from Singapore.