African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Polycarpa Heller, 1877

AphiaID

103538 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103538)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Styelidae Herdman, 1881

Synonymised names

Pandocia Fleming, 1822 · unaccepted

Direct children (13)

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Species Polycarpa arenosa Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1976
Species Polycarpa aspera (Herdman, 1886)
Species Polycarpa inhacae Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1976
Species Polycarpa itapoa Rocha & Moreno, 2000
Species Polycarpa madagascariensis (Michaelsen, 1912)
Species Polycarpa mytiligera (Savigny, 1816)
Species Polycarpa natalensis (Sluiter, 1898)
Species Polycarpa nigricans Heller, 1878
Species Polycarpa papillata (Sluiter, 1885)
Species Polycarpa pedunculata Heller, 1878
Species Polycarpa rubida (Sluiter, 1898)
Species Polycarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898) accepted as Polyandrocarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898) (synonym)
Species Polycarpa seychellensis (Michaelsen, 1912) accepted as Polycarpa mytiligera (Savigny, 1816) (new combination)

Environment

marine, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Heller, C. (1877). Untersuchungen über die Tunicaten des Adriatischen und Mittelmeeres. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien. 37: 241-275, plates I-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7221621 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2024). Ascidiacea World Database. Polycarpa Heller, 1877. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103538 on 2024-04-23

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) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Polycarpa Heller, 1877. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103538 on 2024-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Monniot, Claude

2007-12-05 10:29:40Z

checked

Sanamyan, Karen

[taxonomic tree]

original description Heller, C. (1877). Untersuchungen über die Tunicaten des Adriatischen und Mittelmeeres. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien. 37: 241-275, plates I-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7221621 [details]

original description (of Pandocia Fleming, 1822) Fleming, J. (1882). The Philosophy of Zoology. Vol. 2. Edinburgh and London. pp. 508-518. [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 Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To ITIS

From other sources

Polycarpa sp.