WoRMS taxon details
Molgula manhattensis (De Kay, 1843)
AphiaID: 103788
AphiaID: 103788
| 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 |
Ascidea manhattensis De Kay, 1843 (original combination) Ascidia amphora Agassiz, 1850 (original combination) Ascidia ampulloides Beneden, 1846 (original combination) Ascidia manhattensis (De Kay, 1843) (new combination) Ascidia tubifera Orstedt, 1844 (original combination) Caesira ampulloides (Beneden, 1846) (new combination) Caesira manhattensis (De Kay, 1843) (new combination) Caesira sordida (Stimpson, 1852) (new combination) Gymnocystis ampulloides (Beneden, 1846) (new combination) Gymnocystis manhattensis (De Kay, 1843) (new combination) Molgula ampulloides (Beneden, 1846) (new combination) Molgula caepiformis Herdman & Sorby, 1882 (original combination) Molgula dentifera Damas, 1904 (original combination) Molgula lutkeniana Traustedt, 1893 (original combination) Molgula sordida Stimpson, 1852 (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: Polk, Ph. (1976). Inventarisatie plankton: fauna en flora [Plankton inventory : fauna and flora], in: Nihoul, J.C.J.; De Coninck, L. (Ed.) (1976). Project Sea final report: 7. Inventory of fauna and flora. Project Sea final report, 7: pp. 233-311 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [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: Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 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: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia Mem. Qd Mus. 23: 1-440. [details] 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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [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: 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] from synonym: De Kay (1843) Zoology of New York, or the New York fauna, pt. 5, Mollusca. Albany, 271 pp. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Agassiz, L. (1850) On the embryology of Ascidia and the characteristis of new species from the shores of Massachusetts Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 2: 157-159. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Van Beneden, P.-J. (1846). Mémoire sur l'embryogénie, l'anatomie et la physiologie des Ascidies simples et etc.; Bull. Acad. R. Sci. Lett. B.-Arts Belg. 13(2): (1-11) (look up in IMIS) [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., H.C. Sorby (1882) On the Ascidians collected during the cruise of the Yacht 'Glimpse' 1881. J. Linn. Soc. Zool. London, 16: 527-536 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Damas, D. (1904) Les Molgules de la cote belge. Arch. Biol. 11: 161-181 [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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Atlantic Europe [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Grevelingen [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] L'Etete [details] Manicouagan [details] North Coast of Norway [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Oosterschelde [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Spuikom [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Wales [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Notodelphys canui Roland, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lichomolgus canui Sars G.O., 1917 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Doropygus laticornis Wilson C.B., 1932 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Molgula manhattensis Marine Life Information Network - UK To Biodiversity Heritage Library (141 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (66 nucleotides; 38 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Alien species: The sea grape, Molgula manhattensis, has been present for a long time in Europe, along the east coast of America, and around Australia. Some authors are convinced that the specimens found in America or Europe are different species altogether and therefore in Europe the sea grape can not be considered an exotic species. In Belgium this sea grape was first observed and reported in the middle of the 19th century in the harbour of Ostend. Later the species also established itself in the harbours of Zeebrugge and Blankenberge. The species could have arrived in Belgium via attachment to ship's hulls. [details] Diet: plankton feeder [details] Dimensions: 34 mm in size [details] Distribution: circum-global [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Gulf of Mexico [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Habitat: infralittoral 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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103788 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Molgula manhattensis (De Kay, 1843). 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=103788 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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