Aplidium opacum Kott 1963

Aplidium opacum Kott, 1963 Aplidium opacum Kott 1963, p 108 and synonymy. Distribution Previously recorded (see Kott 1992a): Western Australia (Rockingham); South Australia (Great Australian Bight to Spencer and St Vincent Gulfs, Yorke Peninsula); Tasmania (Fluted Cape); Victoria (Balnarring Beach, Westernport); New South Wales (Port Hacking). New record: Victoria (Western Port). Remarks The newly recorded specimen has the characteristic zooids (with short abdomina and about 20 stomach folds) in crowded double rows along branching common cloacal canals. The species appears to be an Australian indigenous species known only from the temperate half of the continent.
Published as part of Kott, Patricia, 2006, Observations on non-didemnid ascidians from Australian waters (1), pp. 169-234 in Journal of Natural History 40 (3 - 4) on pages 207-208, DOI: 10.1080/00222930600621601, http://zenodo.org/record/5232431
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