Graveyards of Giant Pandas at the Bottom of the Sea? A Strange-Looking New Species of Colonial Ascidians in the Genus Clavelina (Tunicata: Ascidiacea)
press release (in Japanese)
Abstract
An unidentified colonial ascidian called gaikotsu-panda-hoya in Japanese, literally meaning ‘skeleton panda ascidian,’ has been attracting SCUBA divers’ attention for the past few years since its strange appearance was introduced on the Internet by a diving shop in Kumejima Island, Japan. To confirm the taxonomic status of this species, fresh samples were collected from a diving point off the coast of Kumejima Island. Our morphological examination revealed that they represent a new species, ……
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Graveyards of Giant Pandas at the Bottom of the Sea? A Strange-Looking New Species of Colonial Ascidians in the Genus Clavelina (Tunicata: Ascidiacea)
Naohiro Hasegawa , Hiroshi Kajihara
DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.29.53
