Molgula ficus ( Macdonald, 1859 )

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 : 31

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Molgula ficus ( Macdonald, 1859)

#0154F, on floating pontoon. One small but with well developed gonads. Seven branchial folds per side, straight stigmata, eight longitudinal vessels per fold; oral velum large; short tentacular processes around siphonal openings. Kidney dark brown.

Distribution: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, S. China Sea, Chile, California.

Detailed references with illustrations: Millar (1975 as M. martensii Traustedt, 1885 ), Kott & Goodbody (1982 as M. martensii ), Kott (1985), Clarke & Castilla (2000), Lambert (2007), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2008), Other references: Zheng (1995 as M. martensii ), Castilla et al. (2005), Lee et al. (2013, 2016).

References

Castilla, J. C., Uribe, M., Bahamonde, N., Clarke, M., Desqueyroux-Faundez, R., Kong, I., Moyano, H., Rozbaczylo, N., Santelices, B., Valdovinos, C. & Zavala, P. (2005) Down under the southeastern Pacific: marine non-indigenous species in Chile. Biological Invasions, 7, 213 - 232. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10530 - 004 - 0198 - 5

Clarke, M. & Castilla, J. C. (2000) Two new records of ascidians (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) for the continental coast of Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 73, 503 - 510. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / S 0716 - 078 X 2000000300014

Kott, P. & Goodbody, I. (1982) The ascidians of Hong Kong. In: Morton, B. S. & Tseng, C. K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 1980. University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 503 - 554.

Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 23, 1 - 440.

Lambert, G. (2007) The nonindigenous ascidian Molgula ficus in California. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 48, 95 - 102.

Lee, S. S. - C., Teo, S. L. - M. & Lambert, G. (2013) New records of solitary ascidians on artificial structures in Singapore waters. Marine Biodiversity Records, 6, 1 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267213000638

Macdonald, J. D. (1859) On the anatomical characters of three Australian species of Tunicata referable to Savigny's subgenus Caesira. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 22, 367 - 371. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1856. tb 00106. x

Millar, R. H. (1975) Ascidians from the Indo-West-Pacific region in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (Tunicata, Ascidiacea). Steenstrupia, 3, 205 - 336.

Traustedt, M. P. A. (1885) Ascidiae simplices fra det Stille Ocean. Aftryk af Videnskabelige meddelelserfra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn, ann. 1884, 1 - 60.

Zheng, C. (1995) Species diversity of ascidian in the coastal China Seas. Chinese Biodiversity, 3 (4), 201 - 205.