The Ascidian–Amphipod Association between Phallusia mammillata (Cuvier, 1815) and Leucothoe richiardii (Lessona, 1865) in the Mar Grande of Taranto …

D Arduini, L Doria, J Borghese, MF Gravina… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amphipods are widespread in the marine environment, and some have adopted a symbiotic
lifestyle, such as numerous species of the genus Leucothoe (Leach, 1814). Unfortunately …

Distinct microbial communities in an ascidian–crustacean symbiosis

B Hutchings, S López‐Legentil… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ascidians are marine invertebrates known to occasionally host symbiotic crustaceans.
Although the microbiomes of both ascidians and free‐living crustaceans have been …

[HTML][HTML] A novel symbiotic relationship between ascidians and a new tunic-boring polychaete (Annelida: Spionidae: Polydora)

H Abe, O Hoshino, K Yamada, T Ogino, S Kawaida… - Zootaxa, 2022 - mapress.com
Abstract Polydora tunicola Abe, Hoshino & Yamada, sp. nov., a new spionid species
currently considered an obligate symbiont of styelid ascidians, is described based on …

Untold diversity: the astonishing species richness of the Notodelphyidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), a family of symbiotic copepods associated with ascidians (Tunicata)

ILHOI KIM, GA BOXSHALL - Megataxa, 2020 - mapress.com
Detailed study of the Monniot collection of copepods belonging to the family Notodelphyidae
has revealed an extraordinary diversity of novel taxa. With rare exceptions notodelphyids …

Spatial variability in a symbiont-diverse marine host and the use of observational data to assess ecological interactions

E Cruz-Rivera, MED Sherif, S El-Sahhar, T Lombardi - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite a rich taxonomic literature on the symbionts of ascidians, the nature of these
symbioses remains poorly understood. In the Egyptian Red Sea, the solitary ascidian …

Copepods (Cyclopoida) associated with ascidian hosts: Ascidicolidae, Buproridae, Botryllophilidae, and Enteropsidae, with descriptions of 84 new species

IH Kim, GA Boxshall - Zootaxa, 2021 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Monniot collection of copepods associated with ascidian hosts was built up over several
decades of field collecting and taxonomic research on ascidians by Drs Claude Françoise …

Recruitment patterns of the solitary ascidian, 1816 on artificial substrates submerged in the central Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

AMA Al-Sofyani, S Satheesh - Oceanological and Hydrobiological …, 2019 - sciendo.com
Materials and methods The experiment was conducted at Obhur Creek (21 42'33.52” N, 39
5'45.71” E) in the central Red Sea, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Obhur Creek was selected as a …

Proceraea exoryxae sp. nov.(Annelida, Syllidae, Autolytinae), the first known polychaete miner tunneling into the tunic of an ascidian

D Martin, A Nygren, E Cruz-Rivera - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
While studying organisms living in association with the solitary tunicate Phallusia nigra
(Ascidiacea, Ascidiidae) from a shallow fringing reef at Zeytouna Beach (Egyptian Red Sea) …

A new ascidian-dwelling species of Leucothoe Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda: Leucothoidae) from Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

AR Senna, LF Andrade, BS Ramos… - Journal of Natural …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Ilha Grande Bay is considered an area of extreme biological importance for
the conservation of Brazilian biodiversity. While monitoring the macroinvertebrate ascidian …

First occurrence of the family Botryllophilidae Sars GO, 1921 (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in Sicily, central Mediterranean Sea

SL Brutto, A Badalucco, L Musco - Crustaceana, 2024 - brill.com
A female copepod specimen belonging to the family Botryllophilidae Sars GO, 1921 was
retrieved for the first time in December 2023 from nautical ropes of the tourist marina in …