Polycarpa aurita ( Sluiter, 1890 )

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 : 22

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Polycarpa aurita ( Sluiter, 1890)

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#4653, two small specimens, larger one 3.6 cm in height to tip of oral siphon. Tunic off-white to light tan, irregularly furrowed and lumpy, covered with sediment and epibionts. Narrow red line around rim of both siphons, black stripes on outside of siphons and white striping on the inside. Oral siphon at anterior end, atrial siphon posterior, about one third of the body length. Thick branchial trabeculae strongly anchor the branchial sac to the body wall.

Distribution: China, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Japan, New Caledonia, Truk, Australia, Arabia, Guam, Hawaii, Belize (introduced).

References with detailed descriptions and illustrations: Kott (1985), Monniot C. (1987b), Nishikawa (1991), Abbott et al. (1997), Lee et al. (2013). Other references: Nishikawa (1984), Kott (1990), Lambert (2003), Rocha et al. (2012), Lee et al. (2016).

References

Abbott, D. P., Newberry, A. T. & Morris, K. M. (1997) Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii. 6 B: Ascidians (Urochordata). Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, 64 pp.

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

Kott, P (1990) The Australian Ascidiacea part 2, Aplousobranchia (1) and Supplement: Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 29, 1 - 266.

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.

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.

Nishikawa, T. (1991) The ascidians of the Japan Sea. II. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 35, 25 - 170. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 176172

Rocha, R. M., Zanata, T. B. & Moreno, T. R. (2012) Keys for the identification of families and genera of Atlantic shallow water ascidians. Biota Neotropica, 12, 1 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1676 - 06032012000100022

Sluiter, C. P. (1890) Die Evertebraten aus der Sammlung des Koniglichen natur wissenschaftlichen Vereins in Nederlandisch- Indien in Batavia. Zugleich eine Skizze der Fauna des neuen Arten. Ascidiae simplices. Natuurkundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, 50, 329 - 348.

Figures

FIGURE 9. A–C: Polyandrocarpa rollandi. A: right side body, 3 cm in length, removed from tunic; B: same specimen, left side body; C: lobed anus. D: Polycarpa aurita 3.6 cm in height, left side; E, F: Polycarpa captiosa right side. E: in tunic, 6 cm in length; F: removed from tunic.