WoRMS taxon details
Molgula complanata Alder & Hancock, 1870
AphiaID: 103776
AphiaID: 103776
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Molgulidae (Family) > Molgula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Molgula Forbes, 1848 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Caesira canadensis Huntsman, 1912 (original combination) Caesira papillosa (Verrill, 1871) (new combination) Caesira producta (Stimpson, 1852) (new combination) Caesira tenax (Traustedt, 1883) (new combination) Ctenicella lanceplaini Lacaze-Duthiers, 1877 (original combination) Ctenicella morgatae Lacaze-Duthiers, 1877 (original combination) Lithonephria eugyranda Giard, 1881 (literature misspelling) Lithonephrya canadensis (Huntsman, 1912) (new combination) Lithonephrya complanata (Alder & Hancock, 1870) (new combination) Lithonephrya descipiens Giard, 1872 (original combination) Lithonephrya dicipiens Giard, 1872 (misspelling) Lithonephrya eugyranda Giard, 1881 (original combination) Lithonephrya tenax (Traustedt, 1883) (new combination) Molgula papillosa Verrill, 1871 (original combination) Molgula producta Stimpson, 1852 (original combination) Molgula tenax Traustedt, 1883 (original combination) Molgulina papillosa (Verrill, 1871) (new combination) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hancock, A. (1870) On the larval state of Molgula; with descriptions of several new species of simple ascidians Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 6: 353-368 [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: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [details] additional source: 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] additional source: 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] 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: 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]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] additional source: Van Name, W.G. (1945) The North and South American ascidians Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 84: 1-476., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1186 [details] [full text] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] from synonym: Huntsman, A.G. (1912) Ascidians from the coasts of Canada Trans. Canadian Inst., ann.1911: 111-148. [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: Lacaze-Duthiers, H. (1877) Histoire des ascidies simples des cotes de France. Deuxieme partie Arch. Zol. Exp. Gen, 6: 457-673. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Giard, A. (1872) Rechkerches sur les ascidies composees on synascidies Arch. Zol. Exp., 1: 501-704. [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: Stimpson, W. (1852) Several new ascidians from the coast of the United States Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 4: 228-232. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Traustedt, M.P.A. (1883) Vestindiske Ascidiae Simplices, Anden Afdeling. Molgulidae og Cynthiadae Vid. Meddel. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn, ann.1882: 108-136. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Molgula complanata azorensis Monniot C., 1971 accepted as Molgula azorensis Monniot, 1971 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Bretagne [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Pendleton Island [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Botryllophilus macropus Canu, 1892 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Botryllophilus macropus Canu, 1892 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Doropygus pulex Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton feeder [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details] Taxonomy: Order: Pleurogona Suborder: Stolidobranchiata, according to Trott (2004). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103776 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Molgula complanata Alder & Hancock, 1870. 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=103776 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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