Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum, Volume 108South African Museum, 2001 - Natural history |
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... siphons . The right side of the body and the siphons are generally covered with large shell fragments and gravel . The long siphons diverge and they may be 15 cm apart . The colour of the tunic surface varies from yellow to brown or ...
... siphons . The right side of the body and the siphons are generally covered with large shell fragments and gravel . The long siphons diverge and they may be 15 cm apart . The colour of the tunic surface varies from yellow to brown or ...
Page 116
... siphons are long ( 10 and 15 mm ) and close . In life the colour is pink , paler and yellowish on the siphons . The tunic is tough but flexible , entirely covered with small tubercles with a central spine or a branched spine circled by ...
... siphons are long ( 10 and 15 mm ) and close . In life the colour is pink , paler and yellowish on the siphons . The tunic is tough but flexible , entirely covered with small tubercles with a central spine or a branched spine circled by ...
Page 120
... siphon and in the area between the siphons . The muscle arrangment exactly follows the pattern of the hollows of the tunic . The remainder of the thin body wall is devoid of muscular bundles . The oral tentacles are not numerous , only ...
... siphon and in the area between the siphons . The muscle arrangment exactly follows the pattern of the hollows of the tunic . The remainder of the thin body wall is devoid of muscular bundles . The oral tentacles are not numerous , only ...
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Other ascidians recorded in South Africa but not present in this collection | 127 |
Acknowledgements | 134 |
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abdomen adhesive papillae Alonsoa ampullae apical hair bands apical margin Aplidium ascidians basal basitarsus black hairs body wall Botryllus branched hairs branchial sac Clanwilliam cloacal aperture cloacal siphon clypeus collected colony surface dark brown Description Diascia Didemnum DIEGO disc Dorsal and ventral dorsal lamina dorsal tubercle False Bay farm Female fimbriae folds foreleg forewing genus gonads gut loop Hartmeyer hind tibia Holotype intertidal Kott KwaZulu-Natal labrum languet larvae lateral lobes length light brown locality malar space Male material median Melittidae Mesosoma Metasoma Michaelsen Millar Monniot coll Moraea nectar Nieuwoudtville oil-collecting hairs ºº oral siphon oral tentacles ovary pale straw-coloured papillae Piketberg posterior prementum propodeum protruding pubescence Rediviva Remarks and distribution rows of stigmata scutum Sept short Sluiter Sodwana Bay South Africa species specimens spicules Steiner stigmata stomach surface between punctures testis thorax tibia tunic ventral view vesicles Vestiture Whitehead zooids