Polycarpa anguinea, (SLUITER, 1898)

Monniot, Claude, 2002, Stolidobranch ascidians from the tropical western Indian Ocean, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 135 (1), pp. 65-120 : 78

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00017.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5490264
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/436F3F3C-FFDD-FFA3-FC61-FA00FC601D6A
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Polycarpa anguinea
status

Treatment

POLYCARPA ANGUINEA ( SLUITER, 1898) View in CoL

Styela (Polycarpa) anguinea Sluiter, 1898: 52 View in CoL – South Africa.

Polycarpa anguinea: Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1994: 82 View in CoL , fig. 5 – Sierra Leone, and synonymy.

Material

Mozambique: Ibo Island , 1995, 2 specimens, coll. C. Monniot , 1995.

The specimens collected at Ibo are solitary, attached to dead corals. Their anatomy corresponds well to that of other specimens described from the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. The species is widely distributed in the tropics.