Specimens were identified to species level using the relevant literature (Rocha et al., 2012) and in particular the available studies of the genus
Ascidia in Central America (Van Name, 1945; Tokioka, 1972; Carman et al., 2011; Bonnet et al., 2013).
GenBank accession numbers for 18S ribosomal DNA: Phallusia nigra (Mediterranean coast of Israel), FM244845.1; Phallusia nigra (India), JN791272.1; Phallusia mammillata, AF236803.2; Phallusia fumigata, FM244844.1; Corella eumyota, FM244846.1;
Ascidia ceratodes, L12378.2; Chelyosoma siboja, AF165821.2; Megalodicopia hians, AB075543.1; Corella inflata, AY903930.1.
Havenhand, "Fertilization and the potential for dispersal of gametes and larvae in the solitary ascidian
Ascidia mentula Muller," Ophelia, vol.
1,54 14,68 2,61 Halichondria magniconulosa 4,38 9,34 1,99 Ecteinascidia turbinata 12,65 0,10 1,98 Symplegma rubra 11,50 0,00 1,86
Ascidia curvata 1,83 9,90 1,74 Especies FSE FSM PC Crassostrea rizophorae 86,83 55,43 11,64 Aplidium accarense 37,17 2,10 6,33 Brachidonte sp.
bellicosus (crustacean), Luidia phragma (echinoderm),
Ascidia interrupta (ascidian), Penaeus californiensis (crustacean), Sicyonia penicillata (crustacean), Loliopsis diomedae (mollusc), Obelia plicata (cnidarian), Astropecten armatus (echinoderm), and Argopecten circularis (mollusc; Felix-Pico and Garcia-Dominguez 1993).
En el contenido estomacal de la
ascidia se identificaron 59 especies de microalgas y cuatro tintinidos.
Ascidia interrupta, though rare during this survey, is abundant in autumn and is reproductive during that time.
Outgroup members are limited to two solitary Styelidae and one solitary
Ascidia in the order Phlebobranchiata.
Las especies mas abundantes por grupo fueron para anelidos el poliqueto Ophelina acuminata; para artropodos el anfipodo Ampithoe dalli; para briozoarios el briozoo Heteropora magda; para cordados la
ascidia Pyura miranilis; para cnidarios la anemona Aulactina incubans; para equinodermos el ofiuro Ophiactis sp.; para moluscos el pequeno gasteropodo Caecum carpenteri; para nemertinos el genero Nipponnemertes sp.; para platelmintos la unica especie registrada fue la planaria Pacifides psammophilus; para poriferos la esponja Sigmadocia edapha; y para sipunculidos el gusano cacahuate Golfingia sp.