WoRMS taxon details
Halocynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806)
AphiaID: 103828
AphiaID: 103828
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Pyuridae (Family) > Halocynthia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Halocynthia Verrill, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806) (new combination) Pyura pectinicola Michaelsen, 1908 (original combination) Pyura pyriformis (Rathke, 1806) (new combination) Rhabdocynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806) (new combination) Tethyum pyriforme (Rathke, 1806) (new combination) Tethyum pyriformis (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| 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: 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: Logan, A. 1998. A sublittoral hard substrate epibenthic community below 30 m in Head Harbour Passage, New Brunswick, Canada. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 27: 445-459. [details] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p. [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 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: Michaelsen, W (1908) Die Pyuriden (Halocynthiiden) des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg Jahrb. Wiss. Anst., Hamburg, 25, suppl.2: 227-287. [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] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Joes Point [details] North West Atlantic [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Lichomolgus canui Sars G.O., 1917 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton feeder [details] Dimensions: 62 mm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic to Massachusetts [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103828 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Halocynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806). 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=103828 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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