Aplidium falklandicum Millar 1960

• Main Authors: Sanamyan, Karen, Schories, Dirk, Sanamyan, Nadya
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Ascidiacea; Enterogona; Polyclinidae; Aplidium; Aplidium falklandicum; Antarc*; Antarctique*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6195851; https://zenodo.org/record/6195851

Aplidium falklandicum Millar, 1960 (Figures 2 A, 5 A,B) Aplidium falklandicum Millar, 1960: 33; 1970: 100; Monniot & Monniot, 1983: 15 (synonymy). Material examined: Chile, 4. region: Punta de Choros, Rhodymenia, 10m, two colonies; La gruta, 25m, one colony. Remarks. Examined specimens have solid oval colonies with a rather small area of attachment. Zooids are in small circular or oval systems (Figure 5 A). The test is soft, gelatinous, transparent and colourless; the living specimens are whitish or colourless. Thread-like zooids are up to 10 mm long. Stomach wall has five longitudinal folds. According to Millar (1960) the number of rows of stigmata may vary from 12 to 23, a much wider range than occur in most Aplidium species. In the present specimens zooids have 12–14 rows of stigmata. Monniot & Monniot (1983) reported that the number of rows of stigmata is variable but rarely attain 16. Unusual white "thoracic triangles" described for this species by Millar (1960: 35) were not found in the present material. Other features of zooid agree well with the original description, and larva (Figure 2 A) is identical to those illustrated by Millar (1960). : Published as part of Sanamyan, Karen, Schories, Dirk & Sanamyan, Nadya, 2010, New records of aplousobranch ascidians from Central Chile, pp. 58-68 in Zootaxa 2537 on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196669 : {"references": ["Millar, R. H. (1960) Ascidiacea. Discovery Report, 30, 1 - 159.", "Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. (1983) Ascidies antarctiques et subantarctiques: morphologie et biogeographie. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, Zoologie, 125, 1 - 168."]}