Polycarpa argentata ( 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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scientific name	Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890 )
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Polycarpa argentata ( Sluiter, 1890)

#3799B, black warty tunic, heavily overgrown by Botrylloides sp. (#3799A), anemones, and barnacles; 5.5 cm long x 3.5 cm wide in tunic. V shaped dorsal tubercle. Single very large endocarp in gut curve. Anus with many short rounded lobes. Dark brown body wall with numerous small very dark gonads.

#3827B, one large, 5 cm x 5 cm in tunic but longer than wide out of tunic.

Widely distributed in the tropical west Pacific: Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, Guam, Palau, Australia, Gilbert & Marshall Is., New Caledonia, Mozambique.

References with detailed descriptions and illustrations: Tokioka (1950, 1970 as P. iwayamae n.sp.), Kott (1985), Monniot C. (1987b, 2002), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (1996), Monniot F. (2010), Lee et al. (2013). Other references: Monniot F. & Monniot C. (2001), Lambert (2003), Kott (2008), Lee et al. (2016).

References

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

Kott, P. (2008) Ascidiacea (Tunicata) from deep waters of the continental shelf of Western Australia. Journal of Natural History, 42, 1103 - 1217. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930801935958

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.

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.

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. (1970) Ascidians from Mindoro Islands, the Philippines. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 18, 75 - 107. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 175626