WoRMS taxon details
Eudistoma capsulatum (Van Name, 1902)
250201 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250201)
accepted
Species
Distoma capsulatum Van Name, 1902 · unaccepted (original combination)
Distoma convexum Van Name, 1902 · unaccepted (original combination)
Polycitor capsulatus (Van Name, 1902) · unaccepted (new combination)
Polycitor convexus (Van Name, 1902) · unaccepted (new combination)
Polycitor mayeri Hartmeyer, 1911 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Distoma capsulatum Van Name, 1902) Van Name, W. G. (1902). The ascidians of the Bermuda Islands. <em>Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci.</em> 11: 325-412. [details] 
Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Eudistoma capsulatum (Van Name, 1902). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=250201 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Distoma capsulatum Van Name, 1902) Van Name, W. G. (1902). The ascidians of the Bermuda Islands. <em>Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci.</em> 11: 325-412. [details] 
original description (of Distoma convexum Van Name, 1902) Van Name, W. G. (1902). The ascidians of the Bermuda Islands. <em>Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci.</em> 11: 325-412. [details]
original description (of Polycitor mayeri Hartmeyer, 1911) Hartmeyer, R. (1911). Polycitor (Eudistoma) mayeri, nov.sp., from the Tortugas Papers. <em>Tortugas Lab.</em> 3: 89-93. [details]
basis of record 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]
original description (of Distoma convexum Van Name, 1902) Van Name, W. G. (1902). The ascidians of the Bermuda Islands. <em>Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci.</em> 11: 325-412. [details]
original description (of Polycitor mayeri Hartmeyer, 1911) Hartmeyer, R. (1911). Polycitor (Eudistoma) mayeri, nov.sp., from the Tortugas Papers. <em>Tortugas Lab.</em> 3: 89-93. [details]
basis of record 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]
Other
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]
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 van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [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 van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]





From editor or global species database
Genetic nomenclature abbreviation Eucaps [details]
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Distoma capsulatum Van Name, 1902)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eudistoma capsulatum)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Polycitor convexus (Van Name, 1902))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection (135 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 002854.TN) (from synonym Distoma convexum Van Name, 1902)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 002919.TN) (from synonym Distoma capsulatum Van Name, 1902)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Distoma capsulatum Van Name, 1902)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eudistoma capsulatum)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Polycitor convexus (Van Name, 1902))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection (135 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 002854.TN) (from synonym Distoma convexum Van Name, 1902)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 002919.TN) (from synonym Distoma capsulatum Van Name, 1902)
To ITIS