Pyura curvigona Tokioka, 1950

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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Figures 11E, F View FIGURE 11

#2655B, small specimen embedded in Polyandrocarpa rollandi colony (#2655A); body in tunic 2 cm tall, 2.2 cm wide. Long iridescent siphonal spines up to about 211 µm. Rectum swollen, anus with many rounded lobes. Liver greenish, dark. Amphipod in branchial sac.

Widely distributed in tropical western Pacific: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, Palau, Truk, Majuro, Japan, Okinawa, Guam.

Detailed references with illustrations: Tokioka (1950, 1967), Millar (1975), Kott & Goodbody (1982), Kott (1985), Cole & Vorontsova (1998), Monniot F. (2009b), Lee et al. (2013). Other references: Tokioka & Nishikawa (1975), Nishikawa (1984), Kott (1992), Zheng (1995), Lambert (2003), Lee et al. (2016).

References

Cole, L. & Vorontsova, M. (1998) Species of Pyuridae (Ascidiacea) from South Vietnam. Bulletin of Marine Science, 62, 1 - 6.

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.

Kott, P. (1992) The Australian Ascidiacea part 3, Aplousobranchia (2) and Supplement 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 32, 375 - 655.

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

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

Lee, S. S. - C., Chan, J. Y-H., Teo, S. L. - M. & Lambert, G. (2016) State of knowledge of ascidian diversity in South China Sea and new records for Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34, 718 - 743.

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

Nishikawa, T. (1984) Ascidians from the Truk Islands, Ponape Island and Majuro Atoll (Tunicata, Ascidiacea). Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 27, 107 - 140.

Tokioka, T. (1950) Ascidians from the Palao Islands. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 1, 115 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 174438

Tokioka, T. (1967) Pacific Tunicata of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 251, 1 - 247. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.251.1

Tokioka, T., & Nishikawa, T. (1975) Contribution to the Japanese ascidian fauna. 27. Some ascidians from Okinawa, with notes on a small collection from Hong Kong. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 22, 323 - 341. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 175896

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

Figures

FIGURE 11. A, B: Microcosmus exasperatus. A: whole animal right side, 1.2 cm in height; B: siphonal spines, largest 44 um long; C: Microcosmus helleri in tunic, 2 cm in width, showing opened edges of embedded bivalve (arrow); D: bivalve removed from host tunic; E: anterior end of small Pyura curvigona (2 cm total length) partially embedded in Polyandrocarpa rollandi colony; F: P. curvigona siphonal spines, longest 211 µm.