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Ascidia paratropa
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Description
Ascidia paratropa (Huntsman, 1912)
Figure 10C
IHAK 55 BHAK 1731 UF 2542. Kwakshua Petroglyph Cliff, vertical rock wall high current. Scuba, 17–20 m. One specimen.
This species can be up to 11 cm in length and is thought to have a long life span. It is distinguished by its large columnar size and the clear colorless thick tunic covered with short tubercles. Its growth form is upright, attached only at the posterior end. Both siphons are at the anterior end. For detailed descriptions see Huntsman (1912a, b as Ascidiopsis paratropa) and Van Name (1945). This widely distributed but somewhat rare native of the west coast of N. America has a distribution from Alaska to central California (Van Name 1945; Abbott & Newberry 1980; Lamb & Hanby 2005).
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
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- IHAK
- Family
- Ascidiidae
- Genus
- Ascidia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- IHAK 55
- Order
- Enterogona
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Huntsman
- Species
- paratropa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ascidia paratropa (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.
- Abbott, D. P. & Newberry, A. T. (1980) Urochordata: the tunicates. In: Morris, R. H., Abbott, D. P. & Haderlie, E. C. (Eds.), Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, pp. 177 - 226 + P 57 - P 67.
- Lamb, A. & Hanby, B. P. (2005) Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest - A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes. Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC., 398 pp.