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Molgula occulta Kupffer, 1875 
AphiaID: 103791

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
  Anurella roscovita Lacaze-Duthiers, 1877 (original combination)
Caesira occulta (Kupffer, 1875) (new combination)
Molgula africana Sluiter, 1915 (original combination)
Molgula coreni Traustedt, 1880 (original combination)
Molgula hannensis Peres, 1949 (original combination)
Molgula psammodes Traustedt, 1880 (original combination)
Sources  original description: Kupffer, C.W (1875) Tunicata. Jahresber. Komm. Wiss. Untersuchung deutschen Meere in Kiel, Berlin, 2: 197-228 [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: Monniot, C. (1969) Les Molgulidae des mers europeennes Mem. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., 40(4): 172-272. [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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

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

from synonym: Sluiter, C.P. (1915) Einige neue ascidien von der West-Kuste Afrikas Tijdschr. Nederlandsche Dierk. Ver., ser2, 14: 37-57. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Traustedt, M.P.A. (1880) Oversigt over de fra Danmark og dets nordlige Bilande kjendte Ascidiae simplices Vid. Meddel. Dansk Nat. For., Kjobenhavn, ann. 1879-1880: 397-443. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Peres, J.M. (1949) Contribution a l'etude des Ascidies de la cote occidentale d'Afrique Bull. Inst. fr. Afr. noire, 11: 159-207. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish skaldækket søpung  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål pyntesekkdyr  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk pyntesekkdyr  [details]
Swedish maskeringssjöpung  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Coast of England [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of England [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Host of  Ascidicola rosea Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Doropygus pulex Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Gunenotophorus globularis Costa O.G., 1838 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lichomolgus albens Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
Tunicate Phylogeny  Note: Dr. Billie J. Swalla's WEB pages
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103791
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). Molgula occulta Kupffer, 1875. 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=103791 on 2013-05-21
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