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Polycarpa

Polycarpa

Heller, 1877

GBIF:179906396

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# 4619, juvenile. # 4650, 3.4 cm in length, 2.2 cm in width, attached to rubble. Tunic completely white; thin red line around edge of both siphons. Atrial siphon in anterior third of body; siphons aim away from each other. Dense longitudinal and circular muscles extend to posterior end of body. Oral tentacles very densely crowded, numerous, as described by Kott (1985). Dorsal tubercle slightly inrolled. Missing branchial sac, gut and intestine. Endocarps over entire body wall, 18 gonads on the left, 22 on the right, loosely attached along their side; red line down the middle of each. In mature gonads the colorless sperm ducts join to a central one with a single opening by the oviducal opening. According to Kott (1985), young P. papillata often do not have red on the tunic.
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): 1-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.1

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Ascidians collected during the 2013 Singapore Strait International Marine Biodiversity Workshop

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article 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): 1-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.1

Abstract

During the 2013 Singapore Strait International Marine Biodiversity Workshop, hundreds of ascidians were collected along with numerous other marine phyla. Collections were made intertidally as well as subtidally by snorkel, SCUBA, trawling and dredging. While many ascidian specimens remain unidentified, 14 aplousobranchs, nine phlebobranchs and 17 stolidobranchs have been identified; a surprising 50% of these comprise 20 new records for Singapore. An additional new record of the phlebobranch Perophora namei collected from the same area in 2014 and 2015 is included here. Of the 21 new records, Aplidium cf. grisiatum, Distaplia regina, Euherdmania cf. digitata, Cnemidocarpa irene, Monandrocarpa monotestis and Polyandrocarpa rollandi are also first records for the entire South China Sea region.

Lambert G, Lee S S, Teo S L, plazi (2021). Ascidians collected during the 2013 Singapore Strait International Marine Biodiversity Workshop. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.1 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 2/18/2021View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
179906396
Dataset Key
8ebe62fc-b086-459e-b9fd-8a75ded875c7
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source
Backbone Key
2332124
Taxon ID
BB593765FFB0E728FF6CFF73FBECFE36.taxon
Last Crawled
6/10/2026
Last Interpreted
6/10/2026