WoRMS taxon details
Molgula retortiformis Verrill, 1871
AphiaID: 103796
AphiaID: 103796
| 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 retortiformis (Verrill, 1871) (synonym) Meristocarpus fuscus Pizon, 1898 (original combination) Molgula graphica Ritter, 1901 (original combination) Molgula groenlandica Traustedt, 1880 (original combination) Molgula longicollis Wagner, 1885 (original combination) Pera longicollis (Wagner, 1885) (new combination) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Pizon, A. (1898) Revision des tuniciers du Museum (Famille des Molgulidees) Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 4: 272-274. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ritter, W.E. (1901) The ascidians. In: Papers from Harriman Alaska expedition Proc. Washington Acad. Sci, 3: 225-266. [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: Wagner (1885) Invertebrates of the White Sea (In Russian), 1 [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] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greens Point [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Western Passage [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton feeder [details] Dimensions: 75-100 mm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic to Cape Cod [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:103796 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Molgula retortiformis 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=103796 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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