Didemnum psammatodes ( Sluiter, 1895 )

Lambert, Gretchen, Lee, Serina Siew-Chen & Teo, Serena Lay-Ming, 2021, Ascidians collected during the 2013 Singapore Strait International Marine Biodiversity Workshop, Zootaxa 4933 (1), pp. 1-38 : 5

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Didemnum psammatodes ( Sluiter, 1895) NEW RECORD

Figure 2A View FIGURE 2

#0151A; #1168b; #3850C, more spicules than usual; #IT65; #DR70; #IT88; #SD84, no sample taken; #IT94, Cyrene patch reef, not collected.

Distinguished by the brownish-grey color of the tunic due to the presence of dense fecal pellets. The spicules are small and sparse, restricted to a narrow region around the oral siphons (small white clumps in photo). They tend to dissolve easily in fixatives even though buffered.

Occurs in all tropical waters worldwide including China, Indonesia, Philippines, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Palau, Tonga, Guam, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, East & South Africa, Australia, Ifaluk, Japan, Hawaii, Guadeloupe, SE Brazil, Panama (Caribbean), French Guiana, Gulf of Mexico, Florida.

Detailed references with figures: Tokioka (1953 as D. fuscus, 1967 as D. dorotuba ), Eldredge (1967), Monniot F. (1983), Kott (2001), Mohadassi et al. (2019).

Other references: Kott (1981, 1998), Goodbody (1984), Monniot C. & Monniot F. (1994), Monniot F. (1995), Rocha & Monniot (1995), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (1996, 2001), Monniot C. et al. (2001), Lambert (2003), Rocha et al. (2005), Monniot F. (2016).

References

Eldredge, L. G. (1967) A taxonomic review of Indo-Pacific didemnid ascidians and descriptions of twenty-three central Pacific species. Micronesica, 2, 161 - 261.

Goodbody, I. (1984) The ascidian fauna of two contrasting lagoons in the Netherlands Antilles: Piscadera Baai, Curacao, and the Lac of Bonaire. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 67, 21 - 61.

Kott, P. (1981) The ascidians of the reef flats of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 105, 147 - 212.

Kott, P. (1998) Tunicata. In: Wells A. & Houston W. W. K. (Eds.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, pp. 51 - 252 + 259 - 261.

Kott, P. (2001) The Australian Ascidiacea part 4, Aplousobranchia (3) Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 47, 1 - 407.

Lambert, G. (2003) Marine biodiversity of Guam: the Ascidiacea. Micronesica, 35 - 36, 588 - 597.

Rocha, R. M. & Monniot, F. (1995) Taxonomic and ecological notes on some Didemnum species (Ascidiacea, Didemnidae) from S o Sebasti o Channel, south-eastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 55, 639 - 649.

Sluiter, C. P. (1895) Tunicaten. In: Semon, R. (Ed.), Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und den malagischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. Vol. 8. Verlag Von Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 163 - 186.

Tokioka, T. (1953) Ascidians of Sagami Bay. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 315 pp.