Aplidium oculatum Beniaminson 1974 ...

• Main Authors: Sanamyan, Karen, Sanamyan, Nadya
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Ascidiacea; Enterogona; Polyclinidae; Aplidium; Aplidium oculatum; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6187482; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6187482

Aplidium oculatum (Beniaminson, 1974) (Figure 1) Amaroucium oculatum Beniaminson, 1974: 318. Aplidium pliciferum: Sanamyan, 1998: 121 (part, specimens with massive colonies and white spots on thoraxes); Sanamyan, Sanamyan, 2010: 241. Material examined. Kamchatka, Avacha Bay, Starichkov Island, 7 m, 15.10.2006, one colony (Figure 1 A,B); 7m, 28.07.2004, one colony (Figure 1 C), and many other colonies from Avacha Bay. Description. The species forms large thick cushions not divided to lobes. The largest available colony is about 15x 10 cm in extent and 6 cm high. The test is always clear, without sand on surface or in internal layers, gelatinous, moderately soft and muddy translucent. Zooids are not visible through the test on living specimens. Colour varies from yellowish-orange to reddish. Zooids are in typically small, crowded circular or short oval systems around common cloacal openings. Sometimes systems are somewhat depressed and separated by low ridges of the test, a condition seen in many Aplidium spp. ... : 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 41-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208009 ...