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Issue: Vol. 2088 No. 1: 1 May. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-05-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2088.1.7
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Polyzoa (Ascidiacea: Styelidae) from the Atlantic coast of N America, U.S.A.

Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia
Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, P.O. Box 8042, Statesboro, GA 30460-8042, U.S.A
Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia
Ascidiacea Styelidae

Abstract

A new species of colonial Styelid ascidian of the genus Polyzoa was found attached to the test of solitary ascidians collected by divers off the coast of Georgia, U.S.A. The colony of this new species, consisting of small sandy zooids, is cryptic and difficult to detect. The species is characterized by three longitudinal branchial vessels on each side of the body and is the second species of the genus reported for the Atlantic.

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