Aplidium eborinum Sanamyan & Sanamyan, 2011, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Sanamyan, Karen, Sanamyan, Nadya
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Ascidiacea; Enterogona; Polyclinidae; Aplidium; Aplidium eborinum; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3502082; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3502082

Aplidium eborinum n. sp. (Figures 4,5) Aplidium glabrum: Sanamyan, 1998: 119; 2000: 213 (part, specimens from Kamchatka); Sanamyan, Sanamyan, 2010: 242. Material examined. Kamchatka, Avacha Bay: Bezimanny Point, 6–8m, 7.08.2004 (Holotype KBPIG 1442/1); Kekkurny Point, 19m, 26.07.2006 (Paratype KBPIG 1443/2, 2006-07-26-02); Piramidny Point, 18m, 14.02.2007, several large colonies; Starichkov Island, 10–11m, 18.10.2008, one colony (Paratype KBPIG 1444/3). Description. The colonies are thick encrusting masses with the surface raised into large domes or rounded stumpy lobes with large common cloacal apertures on the top. Sometimes the lobes are more separated and connected to each other only by thick anastomoses of the basal test (Figure 5 A). The largest collected colony is about 10 cm in extent and up to 5 cm thick. The colour is rather constant and varies in a limited degree from light yellowgrayish to white, sometimes with a light bluish opalescence on the underwater photographs. In preservative (formaline) ... : Published as part of Sanamyan, Karen & Sanamyan, Nadya, 2011, Shallow-water species of the genus Aplidium (Ascidiacea) from Kamchatka and Commander Islands, pp. 41-50 in Zootaxa 2922 on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208009 ...