Genus: Polyandrocarpa
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(animals) >
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Ascidiacea (sea squirts) > Stolidobranchia > Family:
Styelidae
A total of 29 species
worldwide, with five species native to southern African seas.
Species native to southern Africa
Information from Monniot et al. (2001)
and World
Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).
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Polyandrocarpa anguinea
Indo-Pacific. In southern Africa, recorded from the Cape Peninsula (Western
Cape) through to Mozambique. |
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Polyandrocarpa durbanensis
Recorded from Durban (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) and from Tulear Harbour
in Madagascar. |
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Polyandrocarpa griffithsi
Recorded from rock pools at Isipingo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
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Polyandrocarpa placenta
Recorded from False Bay (Western Cape, South Africa) at a depth of 28 m. |
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Polyandrocarpa tincta
Tropical Indo-Pacific, including Mozambique. |
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Publications
- Monniot C, Monniot F and Griffiths CL. 2001. South African
ascidians. Annals of the South African Museum 108(1): 1-141.
Text by Hamish Robertson |
