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Issue: Vol. 3245 No. 1: 23 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3245.1.4
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

Deep-water Ascidiacea from the Sea of Japan

Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia
Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia
Tunicata Ascidiacea Sea of Japan SoJaBio

Abstract

Four solitary ascidians are recorded in the deep-water material from the Sea of Japan. Two species, Agnezia orthenteronand Pelonaia bursaria are recorded for the first time since original descriptions, a third species, Styela squamosa, is awidely distributed deep-water species not known previously from the Sea of Japan. A fourth species was identified only to a genus level.

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