WoRMS taxon details
Ascidia virginea Müller, 1776
AphiaID: 103717
AphiaID: 103717
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Phlebobranchia (Order) > Ascidiidae (Family) > Ascidia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ascidia Linnaeus, 1767 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ascidia patoni Herdman, 1881 (original combination) Ascidia venosa Mueller, 1776 (original combination) Ascidiella virginea (Mueller, 1776) (new combination) Phallusia venosa (Mueller, 1776) (new combination) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Mueller, O.F. (1776) Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus. Copenhagen: 244-226 [details] basis of record: Monniot, C. (2001). Ascidiacea & Sorberacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 352-355 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (Ed.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Millar, R.H. (1966) Tunicata. Ascidiacea Marine invertebrates of Scandinavia. 1. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Herdman, W.A. (1881) Notes on the British Tunicata with descriptions of new species. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, 15: 274-290 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | British Isles [details] East North Atlantic [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Ascidicola rosea Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Doropygella normani (Brady, 1878) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Doropygella psyllus (Thorell, 1859) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Notodelphys agilis Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Notodelphys caerulea Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Notopterophorus auritus (Thorell, 1859) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lichomolgus marginatus Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103717 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Ascidia virginea Müller, 1776. In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turron, X. (2013) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103717 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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