From Natural History of Southeast Alaska
Class
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Ascidiacea +
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Common name is
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Sea Blisters +
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Documentation requested
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false +
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Family
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Ascidiaceae +
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Genus
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Ascidia +
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Order
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Phlebobranchia +
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Phylum
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Chordata +
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Scientific name is
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Ascidia callosa +
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SpecificEpithet
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callosa +
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Summary
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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. +
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TaxonRank
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species +
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TaxonRemarks
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Ascidia columbiana lumped, then split again by Lambert 2001 +
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Ascidia callosa +
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Categories |
Marine Invertebrate +
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Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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25 July 2013 08:55:26 +
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Ascidia callosa +
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