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Fritillaria borealis subsp. sargassi Lohmann 1896

  • 1. Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Faculty of Livestock, Fisheries and Nutrition, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Makandura, Gonawila, 60170, Sri Lanka. & krishankarunarathne @ gmail. com; krishan. dk @ wyb. ac. lk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1780 - 9749
  • 2. Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Faculty of Livestock, Fisheries and Nutrition, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Makandura, Gonawila, 60170, Sri Lanka. & dileepa _ dc @ yahoo. com; dileepad @ wyb. ac. lk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4449 - 6573

Description

Fritillaria borealis sargassi Lohmann, 1896

Fritillaria sargassi Lohmann 1896: 51–53, Pl. 8 Figs. 1, 8, 10, 12.

Fritillaria borealis f. sargassi: Lohmann 1905: 361, Pl. 12 Fig. 12. Lohmann & Bückmann 1926: 169. Tokioka 1940: 15; 1960: 355, 361–363, Fig. 1. Bückmann 1969: 8: Fig. 12b 2.

Fritillaria borealis f. ritteri: Lohmann & Bückmann 1926: 169. Tokioka 1940: 15.

Fritillaria borealis truncata sargassi + Fritillaria borealis truncata ritteri: Lohmann 1931: 140, 141. Tokioka 1940: 16. Fritillaria borealis sargassi: Fenaux 1993: 63, 70, 84; 1998: 303, 304.

Material examined. Eleven specimens (MDAFWU 2020 /384–394), St.205, January 2020.

Description. Trunk 1–1.5 mm long, roughly eight-shaped, with the well-elongated posterior part. Mouth with the prominent upper lip. Ciliated rings of the branchial passages are circular. The endostyle is short and the digestive tract axis is oblique. Gonads asymmetrically arranged; testis Y-shaped and the spherical ovary placed on the left branch. Tail short, with a broad fin and without amphichordal cells; tail musculature broad, especially in the proximal part, ending abruptly.

Global distribution. The Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea (Fenaux et al. 1998); Australian waters (Thompson 1948). Type locality: The equatorial stream to Cape Verde.

Notes

Published as part of Karunarathne, Krishan D. & Croos, M. D. S. T. De, 2021, Pelagic tunicates (Appendicularia and Thaliacea) of Sri Lanka: two first records with an annotated checklist, pp. 352-376 in Zootaxa 5067 (3) on pages 354-355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5681899

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MDAFWU
Family
Liliaceae
Genus
Fritillaria
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
MDAFWU 2020
Order
Liliales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Lohmann
Species
sargassi
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Fritillaria borealis subsp. sargassi Lohmann, 1896 sec. Karunarathne & Croos, 2021

References

  • Lohmann, H. (1896) Die Appendicularien der Plankton Expedition. Ergebnisse Plankton-Expedition Humboldt-Stiftung, 2, 1 - 148.
  • Lohmann, H. (1905) Die Appendicularien des arktischen und antarktischen Gebiets, ihre Beziehungen zueinander und zu den Arten des Gebiets der warmen Strome. Zoologische Jahrbucher, suppl. 8, 353 - 382.
  • Lohmann, H. & Buckmann, A. D. (1926) Die Appendicularien der Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 bis 1903. Ergebnisse Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition, 18, 63 - 231.
  • Tokioka, T. (1940) Some additional notes on the Japanese appendicularian fauna. Records of oceanographic works in Japan, 6, 1 - 26.
  • Tokioka, T. (1960) Studies on the distribution of appendicularians and some thaliaceans of the North Pacific, with some morphological notes. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 8 (2), 351 - 443. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 174644
  • Buckmann, A. (1969) Appendicularia. Conseil International Pour L'Exploration de la Mer, 7, 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.17895 / ices. pub. 4917
  • Lohmann, H. (1931) Die Appendicularien der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse Deustchen Tiefsee - Expedition ' Valdivia' 1898 - 1899, 21, 1 - 158.
  • Fenaux, R. (1993) The classification of the Appendicularia (Tunicata): History and current state. Memoires de l'Institut Oceanographique 17. l'Institut Oceanographique, Monaco, 123 pp.
  • Fenaux, R., Bone, Q. & Deibel, D. (1998) Appendicularian distribution and zoogeography, In: Bone, Q. (Ed.), The biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 251 - 264.
  • Thompson, H. (1948) Pelagic Tunicates of Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Melbourne, 196 pp.