MSBIAS taxon details
Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841)
103579 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103579)
accepted
Species
Didemnum gelatinosum (Milne Edwards, 1841) · unaccepted (new combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Milne Edwards, H. (1841). Observations sur les Ascidies composées des côtes de la Manche. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France.</em> 18: 217-326., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.6289 [details] 
Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2026). Ascidiacea World Database. Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103579 on 2026-06-06
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103579 on 2026-06-06
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(of ) Milne Edwards, H. (1841). Observations sur les Ascidies composées des côtes de la Manche. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France.</em> 18: 217-326., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.6289 [details]
context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors
context source (Schelde) (2010). Bedreiging voor biodiversiteit. Indicatoren voor het Schelde-estuarium. <em>Opgemaakt in opdracht van Afdeling Maritieme Toegang, projectgroep EcoWaMorSe, Vlaams Nederlandse Scheldecommissie. VLIZ Information Sheets, 200. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende.</em> 7 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F.; Mogelberg, D. D. (1973). Identification manual to the pelagic Sargassum fauna. BBSR Special Publication # 11 , 1-63 [details]
basis of record Monniot, C.; Monniot, F. (1987). Les ascidies de Polynesie francaise. <em>Mem. mus. nat. hist natur, A.</em> 136: 1-155.
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Monniot, F. (1994). Ascidies de Nouvelle-Caledonie. 14. Le genre Diplosoma (Didemnidae). <em>Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4 ser.</em> 16 A (1): 3-11.
page(s): 7, Pl. 1, A. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Monniot, C. (2001). Ascidiacea & Sorberacea. <em>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.</em> 50: pp. 352-355. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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
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]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Kott, P. (2001). The australian Ascidiacea Part 4, Aplousobranchia (3), Didemnidae. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 47(1): 1-407. [details] Available for editors
additional source Rocha, R. M.; Teixeira, J. A.; Barros, R. C. D. (2021). Genetic diversity in the <i>Diplosoma listerianum</i> complex (Ascidiacea: Didemnidae) from the Western Atlantic. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 19(8): 1149-1163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2021.1988003 [details]
additional source Kott, P.; Bradford-Grieve, J.; Esnal, G.; Murdoch, R.C. (2009). Phylum Tunicata: sea squirts, salps, appendicularians, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 409-430. [details] Available for editors
additional source Rocha, R. M.; Moreno, T. R. (2000). Ascidians associated with Eudistoma carolinense van Name, 1945. With description of a new species of Polycarpa. <em>Ophelia.</em> 52(1): 9-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00785236.1999.10409415 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rocha, R. M.; Bonnet, N. Y. K. (2009). Ascídias (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) introduzidas no Arquipélago de Alcatrazes, São Paulo. <em>Iheringia, Sér. Zool.</em> 99(1):27-35., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/s0073-47212009000100004 [details] Available for editors
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 Rocha, R. M.; Dias, G. M.; Lotufo, T. M. C. (2011). Checklist of ascidians (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) from Sao Paulo State, Brazil. <em>Biota Neotrop.</em> 11(1a): 1-11. [details] Available for editors
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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
biology source Tepolt, C. K. (2014). Adaptation in marine invasion: a genetic perspective. <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 17(3): 887-903., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-014-0825-8
note: Here, I review evidence for adaptation in marine invasion, considering both quantitative and genetic studies. [details] Available for editors
context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors
context source (Schelde) (2010). Bedreiging voor biodiversiteit. Indicatoren voor het Schelde-estuarium. <em>Opgemaakt in opdracht van Afdeling Maritieme Toegang, projectgroep EcoWaMorSe, Vlaams Nederlandse Scheldecommissie. VLIZ Information Sheets, 200. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende.</em> 7 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F.; Mogelberg, D. D. (1973). Identification manual to the pelagic Sargassum fauna. BBSR Special Publication # 11 , 1-63 [details]
basis of record Monniot, C.; Monniot, F. (1987). Les ascidies de Polynesie francaise. <em>Mem. mus. nat. hist natur, A.</em> 136: 1-155.
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Monniot, F. (1994). Ascidies de Nouvelle-Caledonie. 14. Le genre Diplosoma (Didemnidae). <em>Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4 ser.</em> 16 A (1): 3-11.
page(s): 7, Pl. 1, A. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Monniot, C. (2001). Ascidiacea & Sorberacea. <em>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.</em> 50: pp. 352-355. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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
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]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Kott, P. (2001). The australian Ascidiacea Part 4, Aplousobranchia (3), Didemnidae. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 47(1): 1-407. [details] Available for editors
additional source Rocha, R. M.; Teixeira, J. A.; Barros, R. C. D. (2021). Genetic diversity in the <i>Diplosoma listerianum</i> complex (Ascidiacea: Didemnidae) from the Western Atlantic. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 19(8): 1149-1163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2021.1988003 [details]
additional source Kott, P.; Bradford-Grieve, J.; Esnal, G.; Murdoch, R.C. (2009). Phylum Tunicata: sea squirts, salps, appendicularians, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 409-430. [details] Available for editors
additional source Rocha, R. M.; Moreno, T. R. (2000). Ascidians associated with Eudistoma carolinense van Name, 1945. With description of a new species of Polycarpa. <em>Ophelia.</em> 52(1): 9-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00785236.1999.10409415 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rocha, R. M.; Bonnet, N. Y. K. (2009). Ascídias (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) introduzidas no Arquipélago de Alcatrazes, São Paulo. <em>Iheringia, Sér. Zool.</em> 99(1):27-35., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/s0073-47212009000100004 [details] Available for editors
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 Rocha, R. M.; Dias, G. M.; Lotufo, T. M. C. (2011). Checklist of ascidians (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) from Sao Paulo State, Brazil. <em>Biota Neotrop.</em> 11(1a): 1-11. [details] Available for editors
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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
biology source Tepolt, C. K. (2014). Adaptation in marine invasion: a genetic perspective. <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 17(3): 887-903., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-014-0825-8
note: Here, I review evidence for adaptation in marine invasion, considering both quantitative and genetic studies. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (194 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications) (from synonym Didemnum gelatinosum (Milne Edwards, 1841))
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diplosoma listerianum)
To GenBank (2262 nucleotides; 195 proteins)
To Niet-inheemse soorten Belgisch deel Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria (in Dutch)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection (66 records)
To ITIS
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (194 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications) (from synonym Didemnum gelatinosum (Milne Edwards, 1841))
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diplosoma listerianum)
To GenBank (2262 nucleotides; 195 proteins)
To Niet-inheemse soorten Belgisch deel Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria (in Dutch)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection (66 records)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
