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Metandrocarpa taylori

Metandrocarpa taylori

Huntsman, 1912

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Figure 11 C IHAK 10 BHAK 0537 UF 2457. Fifth Beach cove boulders, low intertidal. Three clumps. IHAK 65 BHAK 3246 UF 2564. East side of North Beach boulder field, low intertidal. MHAK 14 BHAK 0623 UF 2474. Tippy Rock Bay low intertidal with B. villosa and P. annectens. ZHAK 35 Sasquatch Commode tidepool. The zooids of this colonial species are very similar in size and morphology to the previous species, M. dura, but in M. taylori the zooids are connected only by stolons. Each zooid is completely covered by its own tunic. The stolons may be very short and the zooids crowded but are always separate. The tunic is bright orangeish red and always completely smooth and devoid of epibionts. See Huntsman (1912 b) and Van Name (1945) for detailed morphology. This species is common from Alaska to southern California (Huntsman 1912 b; Ritter & Forsyth 1917; Van Name 1945; Abbott & Newberry 1980; O’Clair & O’Clair 1998; Lamb & Hanby 2005).
Lambert, Gretchen (2019): The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz. Zootaxa 4657 (3): 401-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.1

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AnimaliaChordataAscidiaceaPleurogonaStyelidaeMetandrocarpaMetandrocarpa taylori

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FIGURE 11. Styelidae. A: Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis about 2 cm in width; B: Metandrocarpa dura; C: M. taylori; D: Styela gibbsii 1.7 cm in length; E: S. montereyensis, longest one 8 cm; F: S. truncata 2 cm in length. Scale bars: B, 1 mm; C, 2.5 mm. A and F photos by G. Paulay.

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The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Lambert, Gretchen (2019): The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz. Zootaxa 4657 (3): 401-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.1

Abstract

A three-week intensive marine biodiversity survey was carried out at a small remote region of the central British Columbia coast at and near the Calvert Island Marine Station (Hakai Institute) July 21–August 11, 2017. The survey included daily sampling by the staff and a number of visiting taxonomists with specialties covering all the major groups of invertebrates. Many marine habitats were sampled: rocky and sand/gravel intertidal and tidepools, eelgrass meadows, shallow and deeper subtidal by snorkel and Scuba, plus artificial surfaces including the sides and bottom of the large floating dock at the Institute and settlement plates set out up to a year previously at various subtidal sites. Many new species were recorded by all the taxonomists. In this very biodiverse remote area 36 ascidian species were identified: 18 Aplousobranchia, 7 Phlebobranchia, and 11 Stolidobranchia, comprising a total of 15 solitary and 21 colonial species including two undescribed colonial species. This represents almost one third of all the known North American species from Alaska to southern California in this limited very remote area. Remarkably, only two are possible non-natives. Diplosoma listerianum (Milne-Edwards, 1841), was collected mostly on natural substrates including deeper areas sampled by Scuba, and one colony occurred on a settlement plate. A few Ciona savignyi Herdman, 1882 were collected, two from natural substrates and four from artificial surfaces. There were no botryllids, Styela clava Herdman, 1881, Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002, or Molgula manhattensis (De Kay, 1843), though these are all common and sometimes very abundant non-natives in other parts of BC and along much of the U.S. west coast. Most of the species encountered are known in northern California, Washington, and southern BC, but only a small number are represented among the few known Alaska species.

Lambert G, plazi (2019). The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.1 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

CC0Published 8/20/2019View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
159167952
Dataset Key
3414318d-7570-49ac-9013-be4e1f1e6347
Origin
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Backbone Key
2331895
Taxon ID
6A2E3761A927FFD01390FE82D84BFC9C.taxon
Last Crawled
6/10/2026
Last Interpreted
6/10/2026
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