Dear Dr Tito
Thank you very much for your interest to help me. Could I have the email address of your colleague so I can contact her and ask for a copy of her article? I would also be very thankful and gratful if you could send me just the figure page of Dr. Monniot's reference for the difference between Symplegma viride and S.rubra.
My regards and best wishes to you from Egypt.
Gibreel
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>Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 07:40:52 -0300
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>Dear Gibreel,
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>According to Claude Monniot (ref. below), S. viride has a pear shaped
>testicle, while S. rubra has a large branched testicle. There is a more
>common species with a similar morphology and apparently a pan-tropical
>distribution: S. brakenhielmi.
>There is a coleague in our lab finishing a revision of these 3 species, and
>I think she will be publishing her findings shortly.
>I hope it helps.
>Tito
>
>Monniot, C. 1972. Ascidies Stolidobranches des Bermudes. Bulletin du Museum
>National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 3e serie, 57, Zoologie 43: 617-643.
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>Monniot, C. 1983. Ascidies littorales de Guadeloupe. IV. Styelidae. Bulletin
>du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4e serie, 5, section A, no
>2: 433-456.
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>on 13.04.02 15:22, Gibreel Sharaf at
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> > Dear Ascidian taxonomists
> >
> > How can I differentiate between Symplegma viride and S.rubra (I mean by the
> > zooid anatomy not by color) and is there is any reference that describes the
> > different species of Symplegma?
> >
> > Thank you and my best wishes and greeting to you all.
> >
> > Gibreel
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