World Register of Deep-Sea species

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Ascidiacea

To NHMUK collection (Ascidiacea Blainville, 1824; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473965)

AphiaID

1839 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1839)

Classification

Authority

Blainville, 1824

Status

accepted

Rank

Class

Parent

Tunicata

Direct children (5)

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Order Aplousobranchia
Order Phlebobranchia
Order Stolidobranchia
Order Enterogona (no longer in use)
Order Pleurogona (no longer in use)

Environment

marine, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Ascidiacea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1839 on 2025-07-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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db_admin

2005-01-31 10:07:48Z

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Sanamyan, Karen

2013-09-12 17:28:11Z

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Shenkar, Noa

2015-12-12 19:30:42Z

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Gittenberger, Arjan

2015-12-12 20:34:27Z

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Gittenberger, Arjan

2015-12-14 10:51:48Z

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Gittenberger, Arjan

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Nomenclature

original description Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230 [details]

basis of record 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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Shenkar, N.; Swalla, B. J. (2011). Global Diversity of Ascidiacea. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 6(6): e20657., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020657 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Catalan	ascidis	[details]
Danish	søpunge	[details]
Dutch	zakpijpenmanteldieren	[details]
English	sea squirts	[details]
Finnish	meritupet	[details]
French	ascidies	[details]
German	seescheiden	[details]
Hebrew	איצטלנים	[details]
Japanese	ホヤ綱	[details]
Polish	żachwy	[details]
Portuguese	ascídias	[details]
Spanish	ascidias	[details]
Swedish	sjöpungar	[details]