Table 3.

World distribution of the ascidian species found in the present survey in southern Gulf of Mexico.

	Gulf N	Gulf S	Caribbean	West Atl	East Atl	Medit	Indian	Pacif
Total #	19	31	25	21	16	9	10	10
Ascidia panamensis		x	x
Phallusia nigra	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Corella minuta	x	x	x				x	x
Ecteinascidia styeloides		x	x				x
Ecteinascidia turbinata	x	x	x	x	x	x
Clavelina oblonga	x	x	x	x	x	x
Clavelina sp.		x
Cystodytes dellechiajei	x	x	x	x	x	x		x
Cystodytes roseolus		x			x		x
Eudistoma aff. amanitum		x	x
Eudistoma clarum	x	x	x		x			x
Eudistoma hepaticum	x	x	x
Eudistoma obscuratum	x	x	x	x
Eudistoma olivaceum	x	x	x	x	x			x
Eudistoma recifense		x		x
Stomozoa roseola	x	x		x	x		x	x
Distaplia bermudensis	x	x	x	x	x	x
Polysyncraton amethysteum	x	x	x	x	x	x
Lissoclinum fragile	x	x	x	x	x		x	x
Didemnum duplicatum	x	x	x	x
Didemnum granulatum		x	x	x	x		x	x
Polyclinum constellatum	x	x	x	x	x		x	x
Euherdmania fasciculata		x	x	x
Euherdmania aff. vitrea		x		x
Polycarpa cartilaginea		x	x
Polycarpa spongiabilis	x	x	x	x
Botrylloides magnicoecus		x		x	x
Botrylloides niger	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Pyura sp.		x	x
Microcosmus exasperatus	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Molgula occidentalis	x	x	x	x		x