Pelonaia corrugata Goodsir & Forbes 1841 ...

• Main Author: Monniot, Françoise
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Ascidiacea; Pleurogona; Styelidae; Pelonaia; Pelonaia corrugata; Antarc*; Antarctic; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6187252; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6187252

Pelonaia corrugata Goodsir & Forbes, 1841 (Figures 4 B, 5, 6) Pelonaia corrugata Goodsir & Forbes, 1841. Forbes & Goodsir, 1841, pl.1 figs 1–3. Hartmeyer, 1903 and synonymy. Van Name, 1945 and synonymy. Material. Canada, Grande Riviere, collection Ledoyer, (MNHN S1 PEL 1). Few precise descriptions have been given of P. corrugata in spite of numerous specimens collected around the arctic and sub-antarctic seas. Several species names were given to this very common ascidian but the differences concerning the external aspect are considered non-significant (Hartmeyer 1903; Van Name 1945), varying with the contraction state or the substrate where they live. The most complete description until now is that of Van Name (1945), despite frequent further citations of collections made in various regions (Millar 1970; Nishikawa 1991 and synonymy; Sanamyan and synonymy 2010). Specimens of P. corrugata in the MNHN collections have been examined. Their anatomical description is based on the largest specimen 37mm ... : Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2011, Pelonaia quadrivena n. sp. a case of bipolarity in Ascidiacea, pp. 41-48 in Zootaxa 2833 on pages 46-48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201828 ...