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Ascidia callosa
Class Ascidiacea +
Common name is Sea Blisters  +
Documentation requested false  +
Family Ascidiaceae +
Genus Ascidia +
Order Phlebobranchia +
Phylum Chordata +
Scientific name is Ascidia callosa  +
SpecificEpithet callosa  +
Summary This species was recently split. Reports This species was recently split. Reports of this species from before Gretchen Lambert's 2001 paper on the species was published were mostly referring to the similar and then synonymous [[Ascidia columbiana|Sea Blisters (''Ascidia columbiana'')]]. ''Ascidia callosa'', however, is probably present in the region. It can be distinguished from ''A. columbiana'' in the following ways: 1: It does not have a dense circle of papillae around the siphons. Rather, its siphons look a bit like those of [[Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis|Broadbase tunicate (''Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis'')]], in that they cramp up when shut and have smooth edges. 2: The edges of its tunic rolls a bit, as opposed to spreading out in a thin sheet on the edges, as in ''A. callosa''. 3: Disection should reveal that the oviduct and sperm duct follow the inferior curve of the intestine, and does not cross it.e of the intestine, and does not cross it.  +
TaxonRank species  +
TaxonRemarks Ascidia columbiana lumped, then split again by Lambert 2001  +
Has queryThis property is a special property in this wiki. Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa +
Categories Marine Invertebrate  + , Species  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 25 July 2013 08:55:26  +
Has subobjectThis property is a special property in this wiki. Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa + , Ascidia callosa +
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