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Ascidia columbiana

Description

Ascidia columbiana (Huntsman, 1912)

Figure 10A, B

IHAK 12 BHAK 0609 UF 2466. Under rocks low intertidal across small bay from Hakai dock. Three parasitic copepods in pharyngeal sac vouchered as BHAK 0618.

XHAK 1 BHAK 1281 UF 2511. Maey Channel ARMS, 7.3 m. One specimen on plate, 2.6 cm long in papillated tunic.

XHAK 9 Kelpie Point ARMS, 5 m. One on plate.

Specimen from IHAK 12 with typical morphology for this species; 6.5 cm long in tunic, 3.5 cm long out of tunic. Body very flattened, attached on the left side. Tunic colorless, opaque, papillated. Oral siphon at anterior end, eight lobes and red spot between each lobe; atrial siphon slightly posterior with seven lobes and red spot between each lobe. Both siphons very short. Although a good description was given by Huntsman (1912a, b as Ascidiopsis columbiana), Van Name (1945) mistakenly synonymized A. columbiana under A. callosa, thus combining the morphological characters. A. callosa Stimpson, 1852 (not found during the present survey) is a more northern circumpolar species (Van Name 1945); it has a smooth tunic and broods its embryos, while A. columbiana is a free-spawner. Another difference is that in A. columbiana the sperm duct crosses the intestine; in A. callosa it does not. For a detailed description see Huntsman (1912a, b) and Lambert & Sanamyan (2001). Distribution: Alaska to Washington (Huntsman 1912a, b; Lambert CC et al. 1996 as A. callosa; Lambert & Sanamyan 2001).

Notes

Published as part of Lambert, Gretchen, 2019, The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz, pp. 401-436 in Zootaxa 4657 (3) on page 418, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3371886

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ascidiidae
Genus
Ascidia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Enterogona
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Huntsman
Species
columbiana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ascidia columbiana (Huntsman, 1912) sec. Lambert, 2019

References

  • Huntsman, A. G. (1912 a) Ascidians from the coasts of Canada. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, annals 1911, 9, 111 - 148. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1313 6
  • Van Name, W. G. (1945) The North and South American ascidians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 84, 1 - 476.
  • Lambert, G. & Sanamyan, K. (2001) Distaplia alaskensis sp. nov. (Ascidiacea, Aplousobranchia) and other new ascidian records from south-central Alaska, with a redescription of Ascidia columbiana (Huntsman, 1912). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 79, 1766 - 1781. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / cjz- 79 - 10 - 176 6