Polysyncraton purou C. Monniot & F. Monniot 1987
- 1. Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados Marinhos, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, CP 19020, 81531 - 980 Curitiba, Brazil.
- 2. Department of Taxonomy and Systematics, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
Description
Polysyncraton purou C. Monniot & F. Monniot, 1987
Fig. 10
Polysyncraton purou C. Monniot & F. Monniot, 1987: 49, fig. 16d–h, pl. 3i.
Polysyncraton purou – F. Monniot 1993: 11. — Kott 2001: 126, figs 60, 162C, pl. 6F; 2002: 33, fig. 12A–D; 2005: 2436, fig. 19D.
Material examined
TANZANIA • 3 slides; MNHN A2-843, MNHN A2-846, MNHN A2-847.
Remarks
This species was described from French Polynesia by C. Monniot & F. Monniot (1987). All the characteristics of the specimens from Tanzania correspond to those in the original description (Fig. 10), thus enlarging the known distribution of this species.
Monniot & Monniot (2001) described P. vestiens from Palau as a different species from P. purou based on the smaller spicules, a wider atrial aperture and the absence of the muscular process in P. vestiens. However, in the specimens from Tanzania there is a variation in the size of the spicules and they are smaller (43 to 55 µm) than in specimens from Tahiti. The muscular process in P. purou is very small and not visible in some zooids (Fig. 10 a–b). Since the size of the atrial aperture is also a variable character that depends on the contraction of the zooid, there is doubt as to whether P. vestiens is a valid species.
Distribution
Type locality: French Polynesia (C. Monniot & F. Monniot 1987). Australia (Kott 2001), New Caledonia (F. Monniot 1993) and Tanzania (this study).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Didemnidae
- Genus
- Polysyncraton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Aplousobranchia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- C. Monniot & F. Monniot
- Species
- purou
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polysyncraton purou Monniot, 1987 sec. Oliveira, Hoeksema & Rocha, 2019
References
- Monniot C. & Monniot F. 1987. Les ascidies de Polynesie francaise. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Zoologie 136: 1 - 155.
- Monniot F. 1993. Ascidies de Nouvelle-Caledonie XIII. Le genre Polysyncraton. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4 ieme serie 15 ª (1 - 4): 3 - 17.
- Kott P. 2001. The Australian Ascidiacea. Part 4, Aplousobranchia (3), Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 47 (1): 1 - 410. Available from https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 40460926 [accessed 20 Jul. 2018].
- Monniot C., Monniot F., Griffiths C. L. & Schleyer M. 2001. South African ascidians. Annals of the South African Museum 108 (1): 1 - 141. Available from https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 40905473 [accessed 20 Jul. 2018].