Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum, Volume 108South African Museum, 2001 - Natural history |
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Page 52
... tunic is tough . The spicules are limited to a thin layer at the colony surface and another at the interface with the substratum . The tunic is filled with large vacuolar cells throughout its thickness . It is brown in formalin . The ...
... tunic is tough . The spicules are limited to a thin layer at the colony surface and another at the interface with the substratum . The tunic is filled with large vacuolar cells throughout its thickness . It is brown in formalin . The ...
Page 114
... tunic . Distribution This species occurs from Namibia , along the west coast of South Africa , and extends eastwards ... tunic that make a collar around the siphons . When the animals grow , the tunic increases in thickness , becomes ...
... tunic . Distribution This species occurs from Namibia , along the west coast of South Africa , and extends eastwards ... tunic that make a collar around the siphons . When the animals grow , the tunic increases in thickness , becomes ...
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... tunic , smooth , thick and rigid . The other is smaller ( 15 mm ) with a soft tunic covered with hairs and sediment , and it is brooding . The large specimen was collected at False Bay in a natural site , the small specimens in harbours ...
... tunic , smooth , thick and rigid . The other is smaller ( 15 mm ) with a soft tunic covered with hairs and sediment , and it is brooding . The large specimen was collected at False Bay in a natural site , the small specimens in harbours ...
Contents
233208 | 2 |
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