African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Botryllus Gaertner, 1774

To NHMUK collection (Botryllus Gaertner, 1774; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9474049)

AphiaID

103529 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103529)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Styelidae Herdman, 1881

Direct children (9)

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Species Botryllus closionis Monniot C., Monniot F., Griffiths & Schleyer, 2001
Species Botryllus elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Species Botryllus gregalis (Sluiter, 1898)
Species Botryllus maeandrius (Sluiter, 1898)
Species Botryllus planus (Van Name, 1902)
Species Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)
Species Botryllus anceps (Herdman, 1891) accepted as Botrylloides anceps (Herdman, 1891) (new combination)
Species Botryllus anomalus Millar, 1962 accepted as Botryllus elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (original combination)
Species Botryllus magnicoecus (Hartmeyer, 1912) accepted as Botrylloides magnicoecum (Hartmeyer, 1912) accepted as Botrylloides magnicoecus (Hartmeyer, 1912) (unjustified emendation)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Gaertner, J. (1774). Zoophyta, quaedam minuta. In: Pallas, P.S., Specilegia Zoologia. Berolini: G.A. Lange. fasc. 10: 24-41., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/spicilegiazoolog110pall#page/532/mode/1up
page(s): 37-39 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Botryllus Gaertner, 1774. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103529 on 2026-06-14

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Botryllus Gaertner, 1774. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103529 on 2026-06-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Monniot, Claude

2007-12-05 10:29:40Z

checked

Sanamyan, Karen

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original description Gaertner, J. (1774). Zoophyta, quaedam minuta. In: Pallas, P.S., Specilegia Zoologia. Berolini: G.A. Lange. fasc. 10: 24-41., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/spicilegiazoolog110pall#page/532/mode/1up
page(s): 37-39 [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 Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Botryllus)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Botryllus Gaertner, 1774; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9474049)
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To NHMUK collection (Botryllus Gaertner, 1774; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9474049)

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Unreviewed

Botryllus sp. 1c