Holozoidae ...

• Main Authors: Monniot, Françoise, Dettai, Agnès, Eleaume, Marc, Cruaud, Corinne, Ameziane, Nadia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Ascidiacea; Enterogona; Holozoidae; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6187336; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6187336

Holozoidae Distaplia colligans Sluiter, 1932 Sluiter, 1932: 7. Millar 1960: 77. Kott 1969: 32 and synonymy. Sanamyan & Schories 2003: 94 figs 3C, D, 4, and synonymy. Stations: 5–17. The soft spongy colonies are poorly preserved. They form flat cushions or settle in sleeves around hard polychetes tubes. Colourless in fixative liquids, the colonies may have been yellow in life as bright yellow cushions can be seen on the video recorded on board during the sampling. This is also suggested by the color photos given by Sanamyan and Schories (2003 Fig. 3 C, D) for this species. The zooids in less damaged colonies have 4 rows of stigmata crossed by parastigmatic vessels. The atrial languet is either pointed or dentate. The stomach wall has numerous thin ridges. The ovary is placed in the centre of a ring of testis vesicles. One or two not completely developed embryos hang in a brood pouch. The anatomical differences with D. cylindrica are limited to the colony shape. One sequence for specimen A3 DIS 100 (BOLD: ... : Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, Dettai, Agnès, Eleaume, Marc, Cruaud, Corinne & Ameziane, Nadia, 2011, Antarctic Ascidians (Tunicata) of the French-Australian survey CEAMARC in Terre Adélie, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2817 on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277174 ...