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Pyura gangelion (Savigny, 1816) 
AphiaID: 103850

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Pyuridae (Family) > Pyura (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pyura Molina, 1782
Synonymised
taxa
  Cynthia gangelion Savigny, 1816 (original combination)
Halocynthia gangelion (Savigny, 1816) (new combination)
Pyura albanyensis Michaelsen, 1927 (original combination)
Pyura scoresbiensis Kott, 1972 (original combination)
Pyura tongaea Monniot & Monniot, 1976 (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]

basis of record: Monniot, C. (1973). Redescription de six Ascidies du golfe d'Elat recoltées par H. Schuhmacher. [Redescription of six ascidians from the Gulf of Eilat, collected by H. Schuhmacher.] Isr. J. Zool. 22: 51-62 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Kott, P. (2004) Ascidiacea (Tunicata) in Australian waters of the Timor and Arafura Seas The Beagle, Records of the Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 20: 37-81 [details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Sluiter, C.Ph. (1905). Tuniciers recueiillies en 1904 par M. Ch. Gravier, dans le golfe de Tadjourah (Somalie française). [Tunicata collected in 1904 by M. Ch. Gravier, in the Gulf of Tadjourah (French Somalia).] Mémoires de la société zoologique de France 18: 5-21. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Monniot, C. & F. Monniot (1976). Ascidies de la Côte du Mozambique. [Ascidians from the Mozambique coast.] Rev. Zool. Afr. (1974) 90(2): 357-392. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Monniot, C., F. Monniot (1976) Ascidies de la Cote du Mozambique Rev. Zool. afr., 90(2): 357-392. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Savigny, J.C. (1816) Memoires sur les animaux sans vertebres. Paris., 2, 1-239. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Michaelsen, W (1927) Einige neue westaustralishe Ptyhobranchiate Ascidien Zool. Anz, 71: 193-203. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Kott, P. (1972) The ascidians of the South Australia 1. Spenser Gulf, St.Vincent Gulf and Encounter Bay Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 96: 1-52. [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]

Environment marine
Distribution Djibouti (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
Notes  Distribution: circum-global [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103850
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). Pyura gangelion (Savigny, 1816). 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=103850 on 2013-05-18
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