Eusynstyela tincta Van Name 1902
| Main Author: | Monniot, Françoise |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6068907 |
Daftar Isi:
- Eusynstyela tincta Van Name, 1902 Station. CP 4386. One colony incrusting a mass of barnacles contains a dozen of zooids at different stages of development. The surface tunic is thick, wrinkled and brown in formalin. The basal layer is colourless and transparent. The zooids are dorso-ventrally flattened with the body not strongly adhering to the tunic except at the level of the siphons and at the gonads. The polycarps are located in a peduncle of the body wall which penetrates into the basal tunic. The distinctive anatomical characters of this common species are the 4 branchial folds/side and one longitudinal vessel in the spaces between them, the long stomach with a dozen folds and a small caecum, a smooth edged anus, numerous endocarps, and a few polycarps on each side made of a globular ovary and a testis in 2 elongated vesicles. Often recorded, E. tincta described from Bermuda has been collected in several parts of the Caribbean area and along the Brazilian coast (Rocha & Costa 2005 and synonymy).
- Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2016, Ascidians (Tunicata) of the French Guiana Expedition, pp. 201-245 in Zootaxa 4114 (3) on pages 222-223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/257053