Aplidium spitzbergense Hartmeyer 1903
- Dataset
- Shallow-water Ascidians from Matua Island (central Kuril Islands, NW Pacific), part 2
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Ascidiacea
- order
- Enterogona
- family
- Polyclinidae
- genus
- Aplidium
- species
- Aplidium spitzbergense
discussion
Remarks. The species has characteristic small zooids with four rows of stigmata and five stomach folds. Photos of living colonies of this species show flat dirty-yellowish colonies with some amount of sand on surface and with large sessile common cloacal openings and double rows of zooids radiating from them. Existing photos (Figure 5 A) are not good and detailed organization of systems of zooids cannot be revealed.
materials_examined
Material examined. Matua Island, Point Kluv, intertidal pool, 0 6.08.2017, one colony (# 419).