Botrylloides crystallinus n. sp., a new Botryllinae Adams & Adams, 1858 (Ascidiacea) from Mediterranean Sea

Anne Bay-Nouailhat; Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat; Fabio Gasparini; Riccardo Brunetti

doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a9

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Anne Bay-Nouailhat,¹ Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat,¹ Fabio Gasparini,^2,* Riccardo Brunetti³

¹Mer et littoral, 57 hameau de Cadol, F-29140 Melgven (France) mer.littoral@gmail.com
²Department of Biology University of Padua, Via U. Bassi 58/B, I-35131 Padova (Italy)
³Natural History Museum of Venice, Santa Croce 1730, I-30135 Venezia (Italy) ric.brunetti@gmail.com

^*fabio.gasparini@unipd.it (corresponding author)

Abstract

Botrylloides crystallinus n. sp., collected on sublittoral hard substrata in North Mediterranean Sea is here described. The species presents a seasonal life cycle with a spring-summer regression of the zooids and their buds as known in the congeneric species B. leachii (Savigny, 1816), from which however differs in many unusual morphological traits.

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Anne Bay-Nouailhat, Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat, Fabio Gasparini, and Riccardo Brunetti "Botrylloides crystallinus n. sp., a new Botryllinae Adams & Adams, 1858 (Ascidiacea) from Mediterranean Sea," Zoosystema 42(9), 131-138, (31 March 2020). https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a9

Received: 2 April 2019; Accepted: 18 June 2019; Published: 31 March 2020