Pyura sp.

A. Palomino-Alvarez, Lilian, Moreira Rocha, Rosana & Simoes, Nuno, 2019, Checklist of ascidians (Chordata, Tunicata) from the southern Gulf of Mexico, ZooKeys 832, pp. 1-33 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.832.31712

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:961F1299-F1A3-4327-94B3-15609F6F5A65

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3328B628-ADE6-CA54-3749-16E501101BF4

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scientific name

Pyura sp.
status

 

Pyura sp. View in CoL

Material examined.

CAGoM-0129, CAGoM-0128, CAGoM-0134, B10, 11 m, 17-06-2017, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0160, CAGoM-0162, CAGoM-0146, Pro 1, 7 m, 26-05-2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez.

Remarks.

Specimens were compared with Panamanian specimens and are similar to a new species being described (Skinner et al. in press). In Yucatan peninsula they are 9-10 cm long, and were found mainly on coral reefs. Oral tentacles are more numerous (43-58) and one of the specimens had the following vessel formula:

E 11 (28) 9 (28) 6 (34) 6 (36) 5 (33) 5 (31) 6 LD 3 (30) 5 (28) 5 (27) 6 (32) 6 (30) 6 (22) 10. All other characters were within the variation found in Panama.