Diazona formosa Monniot F. & Monniot C. 1996

• Main Authors: Monniot, Françoise, Monniot, Claude
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2001
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Ascidiacea; Aplousobranchia; Diazonidae; Diazona; Diazona formosa; White Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5468075; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F57D87A3FF863161E830FABCFEC414E0

Diazona formosa Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996 (Fig. 123D) Diazona formosa Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1996: 222, fig. 41, pl. 7E. Type locality: Indonesia. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Philippines. West Luzon, Zambales near Masinloc town, Luan Island, 15°29.96’N, 119°54.41’E, 20 m, 2. V.1995 (MNHN P1 DIA 29). — Cebu, E Mactan Island, wall, 10°15.62’N, 123°59.11’E, 60 m, 18.II.1994 (MNHN P1 DIA 1). — Bohol Sea, Camiguin Island, N side of White Island, offshore sand cay, 9°15.87’N, 124°39.32’E, 18.IV.1997 (MNHN P1 DIA 40). — Bohol Sea, Camiguin Island, W side of White Island, offshore sand cay, 9°15.38’N, 124°30.12’E, 19.IV.1997 (MNHN P1 DIA 45). REMARKS These colonies have the same structure as the type colony, and the zooids are exactly similar. There are some differences in the pigment distribution. In the present specimen the lobes of the siphons are marked with six large white patches on the oral siphon and six smaller patches on the cloacal siphon (Fig. 123D). There is no pigment accumulation above the neural ganglion or the tip of the endostyle. Some of the transverse branchial vessels are pigmented, as are the dermato-branchial trabeculae. When fixed in formalin, all colours disappear. Published as part of Monniot, Françoise & Monniot, Claude, 2001, Ascidians from the tropical western Pacific, pp. 201-383 in Zoosystema 23 (2) on pages 290-291, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5391440