Lissoclinum patella (Gottschaldt, 1898)

Hirose, Euichi, Iskandar, Budhi Hascaryo & Wardiatno, Yusli, 2014, Photosymbiotic ascidians from Pari Island (Thousand Islands, Indonesia), ZooKeys 422, pp. 1-10 : 5

Taxon classification Animalia Aplousobranchia Didemnidae

Lissoclinum patella (Gottschaldt, 1898) Fig. 2C

Didemnoides patella Gottschaldt, 1898

Didemnoides sulcatum Gottschaldt, 1898

Didemnoides ternatanum Gottschaldt, 1898

Didemnum meandrium Sluiter, 1909

Didemnum patella (Gottschaldt, 1898)

Didemnum ternatanum (Gottschaldt, 1898)

Leptoclinum patella (Gottschaldt, 1898)

Lissoclinum patellum (Gottschaldt, 1898)

Specimens.

MZB. Asc. 00003

Habitat.

Dead coral skeletons in back reef.

Remarks.

Colonies were thick cushions attaining about 10 mm in thickness. Tunic contains both stellate and globular spicules (Fig. 1C, inset). Prochloron cells were distributed within the common cloacal cavity. Some zooids had testes. Because of the large size, this species has been thoroughly studied for its natural compounds (e.g., Schmidt et al. 2012).