WoRMS taxon details
original description
Bovien, P. (1921). Ascidiae from the Aukland and Campbell Islands. <em>Vid. Meddel. Dansk Nat. Foren.</em> 73: 33-47. page(s): 40-43, Pl. 4, Figs. 1-2. [details]
additional source
Kott, P. (1971). Antarctic ascidiacea II. A monographic account of the known species based on specimens collected under U.S. Government auspices 1947 to 1963. <em>Antarctic Resarch Series.</em> 17: 11-82. page(s): 43, Fig. 30. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Millar, R. H. (1982). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Ascidiacea. <em>N.Z. oceanogr. Inst. Mem.</em> 85: 1-117., available online at https://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/Memoir%20085_The%20Marine%20Fauna%20of%20New%20Zealand_Ascidiacea.pdf page(s): 65. [details]
additional source
Kott, P.; Bradford-Grieve, J.; Esnal, G.; Murdoch, R.C. (2009). Phylum Tunicata: sea squirts, salps, appendicularians, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 409-430. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Description Low, dome-shaped, more or less separated zooids, some united to parent zooids by a stolon, others having lost the connection and become isolated; about 20 oral tentacles; no branchial folds; six longitudinal bars per side; short wide stomach with 16-18 folds and club-shaped pyloric caecum; intestine short, strongly curved into compact loop beside stomach; about six ovaries on right near endostyle; 4-6 testes on left, pear-shaped with slender sperm duct. [details]
Genetic nomenclature abbreviation Alaffi [details]
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