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Two new species of Styela (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) from the tropical West Atlantic Ocean. 2021

Rodolfo Corrêa DE Barros, and Rosana Moreira DA Rocha
Graduate Program in Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná.. rodolfo@ufpr.br.

Two new species of the genus Styela are described, with very rare characteristics in this genus: both are shallow-water and tropical, with more than two gonads in each side of the body. Styela panamensis sp. nov. is described from specimens collected in Bocas del Toro, Atlantic coast of Panama, and Styela multicarpa sp. nov. from specimens collected in Espírito Santo, Brazil and Margarita Island, Venezuela. They are probably native to the south Caribbean and S. multicarpa sp. nov. is introduced in Brazil.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001267 Atlantic Ocean Body of water separating North and South America from Africa and Europe.
D014561 Urochordata A subphylum of chordates intermediate between the invertebrates and the true vertebrates. It includes the Ascidians. Ascidia,Tunicata,Ascidiacea,Ascidians,Sea Squirts,Tunicates,Urochordates,Ascidian,Sea Squirt,Squirt, Sea,Tunicate,Urochordate

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