Boltenia villosa ( Stimpson, 1864 )

Lambert, Gretchen, 2019, The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz, Zootaxa 4657 (3), pp. 401-436 : 424

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scientific name	Boltenia villosa ( Stimpson, 1864 )
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Boltenia villosa ( Stimpson, 1864)

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IHAK 12 BHAK 0607, 0608 UF 2465. Three very small specimens, under rocks by lab, low intertidal. BHAK 0734 vouchered as tissue sample only.

IHAK 18 BHAK 0640, 0641 UF 2491, 2492. Under lab dock. Three specimens, smallest one discarded.

IHAK 52 A Mouth of Kwakshua, Scuba, 5 m. One small .

MHAK 14 BHAK 0624 UF 2475. Tippy Rock Bay, low intertidal. Small. With M. taylori , P. annectens .

Rarely over 3 cm in width, usually bright red, with widely separated siphons at the anterior end of the somewhat heart-shaped body, and a stalk of variable length which can be as much as four times the body length ( O’Clair & O’Clair 1998). The tunic is always thickly covered with hairs of various lengths that may be minutely branched, resulting in the body often being covered with detritus and various epibionts. For detailed description see Huntsman (1912b) and Van Name (1945); other descriptions and distribution in Abbott & Newberry (1980), O’Clair & O’Clair (1998), and Lamb & Hanby (2005). Native to the NE Pacific coast from Alaska to southern California.

References

Abbott, D. P. & Newberry, A. T. (1980) Urochordata: the tunicates. In: Morris, R. H., Abbott, D. P. & Haderlie, E. C. (Eds.), Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, pp. 177 - 226 + P 57 - P 67.

Huntsman, A. G. (1912 b) Holosomatous ascidians from the coast of western Canada. Contributions to Canadian Biology 1906 - 1910, 103 - 185. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / f 06 - 010 b

Lamb, A. & Hanby, B. P. (2005) Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest - A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes. Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC., 398 pp.

O'Clair, R. M. & O'Clair, C. E. (1998) Southeast Alaska's Rocky Shores. Plant Press, Auke Bay, Alaska, 564 pp.

Stimpson, W. (1864) Description of new species of marine Invertebrata from Puget Sound, collected by the naturalists of the North-west Boundary Commission. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 16, 153 - 161. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5972 0

Van Name, W. G. (1945) The North and South American ascidians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 84, 1 - 476.

Figures

FIGURE 12.A–D: Pyuridae; E, F: Molgulidae.A: Halocynthia aurantium 10 cm in length; B: Halocynthia igaboja; C: Boltenia villosa; D: Pyura haustor; E: Molgula pacifica whole animal left side, tunic removed; F: M. pacifica close-up of siphons. Scale bars: B, 5 mm; C, 5 mm; D, 5 mm; E, 1.6 mm.