Studies on Japanese Botryllid Ascidians. IV. A New Species of the Genus Botryllus with a Unique Colony Shape, from the Vicinity of Shimoda

Zoological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1153-1161

  Saito, Yasunori ^a   Okuyama, Makiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Botryllus; Colony specificity; New species; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; JAPAN; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; JAPAN; LARVA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLUS; BOTRYLLUS SCALARIS; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0347604756     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.20.1153     Document Type: Article

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