Ecteinascidia thurstoni Herdman 1890
- 1. University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor WA 98250, USA.
- 2. St John's Island National Marine Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227. & serina. lee @ nus. edu. sg; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9326 - 0941
- 3. St John's Island National Marine Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227. & tmsteolm @ nus. edu. sg; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3309 - 4715
Description
Ecteinascidia thurstoni Herdman, 1890 NEW RECORD
Figure 6E
Elongate zooids usually pale orange in color, both siphons short, close together at anterior end of body. Orange band around siphons, blue spots in life between the siphons.
#2640, longest zooid 10 mm. Orange band around siphons, blue spots in life, not visible in fixed zooids. No orange spots scattered on body wall as in #4613. Sixteen rows of stigmata on right, 17 rows on left. About 50 oral tentacles. Cluster of poorly developed testes in curve of gut in some zooids.
#4613, zooids 6 mm in length; a few scattered orange spots on body wall visible through the transparent tunic. Seven oral lobes, six atrial lobes. Sixteen rows of stigmata on right, 15–16 on left (posterior-most row is dividing). A cluster of immature testes in curve of gut.
Distribution: Sri Lanka, Australia, Bahrain, Thailand, South Africa, Red Sea, Israel (Mediterranean).
Detailed descriptions with illustrations: Kott (1985), Monniot C. & Monniot F. (1997). Other references: Monniot C. et al. (2001), Gab–Alla (2008), Chavanich et al. (2009), Shenkar & Loya (2009).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Perophoridae
- Genus
- Ecteinascidia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Enterogona
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Herdman
- Species
- thurstoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ecteinascidia thurstoni Herdman, 1890 sec. Lambert, Lee & Teo, 2021
References
- Herdman, W. A. (1890) On the genus Ecteinascidia and its relations, with descriptions of two new species and a classification of the family Clavelinidae. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society, 5, 144 - 163.
- Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 23, 1 - 440.
- Gab-Alla, A. A-F. A. (2008) Distribution of the sea squirt Ecteinascidia thurstoni Herdman, 1890 (Ascidiacea: Perophoridae) along Suez Canal and Egyptian Red Sea coasts. Oceanologia, 50, 239 - 253. https: // doi. org / 10.21608 / ejabf. 2008.1976
- Chavanich, S., Viyakarn, V., Piyatiratitivorakul, P., Suwanborirux, K. & Bussarawit, S. (2009) Two introduced tunicate species, Ecteinascidia thurstoni Herdman, 1891 and Clavelina cyclus Tokioka & Nishikawa, 1975, in Thailand. Aquatic Invasions, 4, 349 - 351. https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2009.4.2.6
- Shenkar, N. & Loya, Y. (2009) Non-indigenous ascidians (Chordata: Tunicata) along the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Marine Biodiversity Records, 2, 1 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267209990753