WoRMS taxon details
original description
Savigny, J. C. (1816). Memoires sur les animaux sans vertebres. <em>Paris.</em> 2: 1-239. [details]
original description
(of Glossophorum sundaicum Sluiter, 1909) Sluiter, C. P. (1909). Die Tunicaten der Siboga-Expedition. Part 2. Die merosomen Ascidien. <em>Siboga-Expedition.</em> 56: 1-112. [details]
original description
(of Polyclinum brasilense Michaelsen, 1923) Michaelsen, W. (1923). Neue und altbekannte Ascidien aus dem Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. <em>Mitt. Zol. Mus., Hamburg.</em> 40: 1-60. [details]
context source (Introduced species)
Fofonoff, P.W.; Ruiz, G.M.; Steves, B.; Carlton, J.T. (2014). National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System (NEMESIS), available online at http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Huang ZG., Yan SK. &Zheng DQ. (1992). Biofouling communities on pier pilings in Mirs Bay. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Fourth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China III. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 2: pp 529-543. [details]
context source (Bermuda)
Monniot, F. (1972). Ascidies aplousobranches des Bermudes. Polyclinidae et Polycitoridae. Bulletin du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle 3e ser., no. 82, Zoologie, 61: 949-962 [details]
basis of record
Monniot, F.; Monniot, C. (1997). Ascidians Collected in Tanzania. <em>Journal of East African Natural History.</em> 86(1), 1-35., available online at https://doi.org/10.2982/0012-8317(1997)86[1:acit]2.0.co;2 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Van Name, W. G. (1945). The North and South American ascidians. <em>Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.</em> 84: 1-476., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1186 [details]
additional source
Cole, L. and G. Lambert. 2009. Tunicata (Urochordata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1209–1216 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Monniot, F. (2016). Ascidians (Tunicata) of the French Guiana Expedition. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4114(3): 201-245., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Genetic nomenclature abbreviation Pnmcon [details]From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal Galapagos part of the South Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms
[details]Unreviewed
Distribution semi-cosmopolitan [details]
Remark Millar, 1955 placed this species in Synoicidae [details]
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