Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum, Volume 108South African Museum, 2001 - Natural history |
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Page 82
... thin stolons , with closely spaced siphons . The tunic is thin . The translucent body wall contains weak musculature . Twenty to 24 short thick oral tentacles in 3-4 orders of size are mounted on a crest ( Fig . 41A , B ) . The ...
... thin stolons , with closely spaced siphons . The tunic is thin . The translucent body wall contains weak musculature . Twenty to 24 short thick oral tentacles in 3-4 orders of size are mounted on a crest ( Fig . 41A , B ) . The ...
Page 86
... thin tunic includes some sediment . In life the tunic is orange - red with , between the siphons , two symmetrical white patches separated by an unpigmented area corresponding to the neural ganglion . The body wall is transparent with a ...
... thin tunic includes some sediment . In life the tunic is orange - red with , between the siphons , two symmetrical white patches separated by an unpigmented area corresponding to the neural ganglion . The body wall is transparent with a ...
Page 98
... thin , soft but resistant . The largest individuals ( 60 mm ) are covered with various epibionts , including even ... thin membrane or long trabeculae . The thin branchial sac has four low folds per side . It is linked to the body wall ...
... thin , soft but resistant . The largest individuals ( 60 mm ) are covered with various epibionts , including even ... thin membrane or long trabeculae . The thin branchial sac has four low folds per side . It is linked to the body wall ...
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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 บบ 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