Brooksia rostrata (Traustedt, 1893)

Franco, P., Dahms, H. - U., Lo, W. - T. & Hwang, J. - S., 2017, Pelagic tunicates in the China Seas, Journal of Natural History 51 (15 - 16), pp. 917-936 : 931

Brooksia rostrata

Morphology

Solitary zooids measure up to 31 mm without the anterior projection. MI and intermediate muscle are contiguous or fused with MII and MIII in the mid-dorsal line (authors’ personal observations; Marine Species Identification Portal 2017).

Biogeography

Recorded in the Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific, and the Tropical Atlantic and North Atlantic Ocean (WoRMS Editorial Board 2017).