Pelagic tunicates in the China Seas
| Autor: | W.-T. Lo, Pietro Franco, Hans-Uwe Dahms, Jiang-Shiou Hwang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences biology Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Biogeography Biodiversity Species diversity Pelagic zone biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Doliolidae Tunicate Fishery Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Larvacea 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Thaliacea |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Natural History. 51:917-936 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5262 0022-2933 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00222933.2017.1293180 |
| Popis: | The biogeography of pelagic tunicates belonging to the two taxonomic classes Larvacea and Thaliacea was analysed using seven sampling stations along the coastal regions of Taiwan which contribute to all the China Seas surrounding Taiwan. The collected data were then compared with the information in the available literature about pelagic tunicate species diversity in the China Seas (Bohai Sea, North Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea) and previous studies on these organisms in Taiwan waters to get a better understanding of their biodiversity, abundance and distribution. A total of 19 species of pelagic tunicates were observed and identified to the speciel level: five species belonging to the class Larvacea, in the two families Oikopleuriidae and Fritillariidae; 14 species belonging to the class Thaliacea, in the families Salpidae and Doliolidae. We summarised morphological characteristics of the recorded species which were found to be useful for identification, and we provided further i... |
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