Polycarpa captiosa
- 1. University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor WA 98250, USA.
- 2. St John's Island National Marine Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227. & serina. lee @ nus. edu. sg; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9326 - 0941
- 3. St John's Island National Marine Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227. & tmsteolm @ nus. edu. sg; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3309 - 4715
Description
Polycarpa captiosa (Sluiter, 1885)
Figure 9E, F; Figure 10A
Tunic usually a lumpy white. Siphons with brown or blackish and white stripes, thin red line around the edge of the siphons out of the tunic. Siphons and body wall after preservation in formalin mostly dark brown. Atrial siphon in posterior third of specimens. Dorsal ganglion makes prominent yellow bump on body wall midway between siphons. Prepharyngeal groove narrow, long; dorsal tubercle also long and narrow with several openings mostly in anteroposterior direction. Many endocarps scattered over the body wall, several long paddle-like ones in the gut loop, and long ones projecting into the atrial opening as described by Monniot F. & Monniot C. (1996). Entire body wall with dense horizontal musculature as drawn by Tokioka (1950) for P. papillata Sluiter, 1885. Stomach long, many grooves; anus with many short rounded lobes.
#0167, several large individuals, fouling; #0170, fouling.
#1210, length 6 cm in tunic, 5.4 cm out of tunic. Gonads elongate, attached at proximal end, eight on left side, 16 on right.
#1224, about 4 cm long out of tunic to tip of oral siphon. A couple red patches at posterior end of body wall on right side. Oral tentacles few and brown with space between each. Branchial sac missing the posterior part. Gonads small but elongate, six on the right side, none on the left; probably immature. A few oocytes, testes irregularly lobed as in Tokioka (1950).
# 2582, specimen 3.3 cm long in tunic, 2.5 cm long out of tunic. Digestive organs eviscerated along with the posterior part of the left branchial sac.
#2641B, two large specimens; branchial sac and gut loop are eviscerated.
#3875, juvenile 2.5 cm long to siphon tip x 1.4 cm wide. No gonads.
Distribution: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Palau, Marianas Is., Australia.
References with detailed descriptions and illustrations: Tokioka (1950), Millar (1975), Monniot F. & Monniot C. (1996, 2001, 2008); Lee et al. (2013). Other references: Kott (1985, erroneously synonymized under P. papillata; see Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2001), Lee et al. (2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Styelidae
- Genus
- Polycarpa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleurogona
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Sluiter
- Species
- captiosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polycarpa captiosa (Sluiter, 1885) sec. Lambert, Lee & Teo, 2021
References
- Sluiter, C. P. (1885) Uber einige einfache Ascidien von der Insel Billiton. Natuurvetenschappelijk Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, 45, 160 - 232.
- Tokioka, T. (1950) Ascidians from the Palao Islands. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 1, 115 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 174438
- Millar, R. H. (1975) Ascidians from the Indo-West-Pacific region in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (Tunicata, Ascidiacea). Steenstrupia, 3, 205 - 336.
- Lee, S. S. - C., Teo, S. L. - M. & Lambert, G. (2013) New records of solitary ascidians on artificial structures in Singapore waters. Marine Biodiversity Records, 6, 1 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267213000638
- Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 23, 1 - 440.
- Lee, S. S. - C., Chan, J. Y-H., Teo, S. L. - M. & Lambert, G. (2016) State of knowledge of ascidian diversity in South China Sea and new records for Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34, 718 - 743.