Cystodytes dellechiajei (Della Valle, 1877)

A. Palomino-Alvarez, Lilian, Moreira Rocha, Rosana & Simoes, Nuno, 2019, Checklist of ascidians (Chordata, Tunicata) from the southern Gulf of Mexico, ZooKeys 832, pp. 1-33 : 1

Cystodytes dellechiajei (Della Valle, 1877)

Material examined.

CAGoM-0135, CAGoM-0449, B10, 11 m, 17-06-2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez.

Remarks.

This is the only known west Atlantic species of the genus which has been reported from nine countries, both in tropical and subtropical regions ( Rocha et al. 2005, 2012). The species is very rare in the southern Gulf of Mexico (Table 1); it has been found in shallow waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico in Florida ( Van Name 1945).

Global distribution.

United States ( Van Name 1945; Plough 1978); Bermudas ( Monniot 1972; Van Name 1902, 1945), Panamá ( Collin et al. 2005), Les Saints, Martinique ( Gravier 1955), Guyana ( Millar 1977), Brazil ( Millar 1977; Rocha et al. 2005), Azores ( Michaelsen 1923; Monniot 1971; Monniot and Monniot 1994; Monniot 1975), Canary Islands ( Ríos 1985), Senegal ( Michaelsen 1915; Monniot 1969; Pérès 1949, 1951; Lafargue and Wahl 1987), Iberic Mediterranean ( López-Legentil and Turon 2005), France ( Harant 1927; Harant and Vernières 1933; Lafargue 1970), Italy ( Drasche 1883; Brunetti 1994), Philippines ( Van Name 1918), and Australia ( Michaelsen 1930; Millar 1953; Kott 1990).