Abstract
The U.S Coral Reef Research Foundation collected by SCUBA various marine invertebrates in the islands of Vanuatu. Among them was a small bulbous ascidian settled on thin test stolons of another discrete ascidian being very similar in colour and shape. It is a new species of the genus Monandrocarpa (Styelidae) in which few species have been recorded. This genus is characterised by gonads in rows of hermaphrodite polycarps, each of them containing a single male vesicle. Other species in the same genus are discussed.
References
Kott, P. (1972 ) Notes on some ascidians from Port Jackson, Botany Bay and Port Hacking, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 97 (4), 41–257.
Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea Pt 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 23, 1–440.
Michaelsen, W. (1904) Die stolidobranchien Ascidien der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition „Valdivia“, 7, 183–260.
Millar, R.H. (1975) Ascidians from the Indo-west Pacific region in the Zoological Museum Copenhagen (Tunicata Ascidiacea). Steenstrupia, 3, 205–336.
Monniot, C. (1970) Ascidies phlébobranches et stolidobranches. In Campagnes de la Calypso au large des côtes atlantiques de l’Amérique du Sud (1961–1962) première partie. Annales de l’Institut Océanographique, 47, 33–59.
Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. (1987) Les Ascidies de Polynésie Française. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, Zoologie, 136, 1–146.
Monniot, F. & Monniot, C. (2003) Ascidies de la pente externe et bathyales de l’Ouest Pacifique. Zoosystema, 25 (4), 681–749.
Sanamyan, K.E. & Sanamyan, N.P. (1999) Some benthic Tunicata from the southern Indo-Pacific Ocean. Journal of Natural History, 33, 1835–1876.
Sluiter, C. PH. (1904) Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. Pt. 1, Die socialen und holosomen Ascidien. Siboga Expedition, 1–127.
Tokioka, T. (1953) Ascidians of Sagami Bay. Tokyo, 315 pp.
Tokioka, T. (1967) Pacific Tunicata of the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 251, 1–247.