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Metandrocarpa dura

Metandrocarpa dura

(Ritter, 1896)

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Figure 11 B IHAK 7 BHAK 0373 UF 2453. West Beach, south side, boulder field, low intertidal. One colony, a thick flat mat 7 × 5 × 4 mm thick. IHAK 53 BHAK 1730 UF 2541. Choked Pass, Outer Sandspit, Scuba, 12 m. All zooids are completely embedded in the tough red common tunic, though there is a shallow furrow between each zooid. The colonies are flat, usually no more than 5 – 6 mm in thickness, but may be composed of hundreds of zooids that attain a spread of up to 10 cm or more over hard surfaces. Both siphons of each zooid open independently on the tunic surface. The tunic is always smooth, never covered by epibionts. A detailed morphology is given by Huntsman (1912 b, as M. dermatina) and Van Name (1945). Distribution: British Columbia to southern California (Ritter & Forsyth 1917; Van Name 1945; 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 dura

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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 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 8/20/2019View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
159167953
Dataset Key
3414318d-7570-49ac-9013-be4e1f1e6347
Origin
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Backbone Key
2331900
Taxon ID
6A2E3761A926FFD01390F922DE9EFEC9.taxon
Last Crawled
6/10/2026
Last Interpreted
6/10/2026
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