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Aplidium pallidum (Verrill, 1871) 
AphiaID: 103658

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Aplousobranchia (Order) > Polyclinidae (Family) > Aplidium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Aplidium Savigny, 1816
Synonymised
taxa
  Amaroecium pallidum Verrill, 1871 (misspelling)
Amaroucium pallidum Verrill, 1871 (original combination)
Amoroecium pallidum Verrill, 1871 (misspelling)
Amouroecium pallidum Verrill, 1871 (misspelling)
Amouroucium pallidum Verrill, 1871 (original combination)
Aplidium despectum Herdman, 1886 (original combination)
Aplidium lacteum Huitfeld-Kaas, 1896 (original combination)
Aplidium melleum Alder & Hancock, 1912 (original combination)
Aplidium zostericola Giard, 1872 (original combination)
Sources  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: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: Millar, R.H. (1966) Tunicata. Ascidiacea Marine invertebrates of Scandinavia. 1. [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Verrill, A.E. (1871) Descriptions of some imperfectly known and new ascidians from New England Amer. Jour. Sci, ser.3, 1: 54-58, 93-100, 211-212, 288-294, 443-446. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Alder, J., Hancock (1905-1912) The British Tunicata. London, Ray Society, vol.1 (1905), 146pp; 2 (1907), vol.2 (1907), 164pp; vol.3, (1912), 113pp. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Herdman, W.A. (1886) Report on the Tunicata collected during the years 1873-1876. Part 2, Ascidiae compositae Zool. Chall. Exp. 14(38): 1-425. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Huitfeld-Kaas, H. (1896) Synascidiae. Norske Nordhavs-Exped., 7(3/23): 1-27. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Giard, A. (1872) Rechkerches sur les ascidies composees on synascidies Arch. Zol. Exp., 1: 501-704. [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Swedish bubbelsjöpung  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Irish Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Northern North Atlantic [details]
Simpson Island [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Host of  Enterocola brementi Illg & Dudley, 1980 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Enterocola mammifera Chatton & Harant, 1922 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Haplostoma brevicauda (Canu, 1886) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Enterocola brementi Illg & Dudley, 1980 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: plankton feeder [details]

Dimensions: colonies up to 25 mm thick [details]

Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras [details]

Distribution: subarctic south to Rhode Island [details]

Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details]

Taxonomy: Order: Enterogona, Suborder: Aplousobranchia, according to Trott (2004). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103658
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Monniot, Claude
2007-12-05 12:32:01Z  checked  Sanamyan, Karen
  
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  Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Aplidium pallidum (Verrill, 1871). In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turron, X. (2013) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103658 on 2013-05-22
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