WoRMS taxon details
Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)
AphiaID: 103862
AphiaID: 103862
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Botryllus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Botryllus Gaertner, 1774 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alcyonium borlasii Turton, 1807 (original combination) Alcyonium schlosseri Pallas, 1766 (original combination) Aplidium verrucosum Dalyell, 1839 (original combination) Botryllus aurolineatus Giard, 1872 (original combination) Botryllus badium Alder & Hancock, 1912 (literature misspelling) Botryllus badius Alder & Hancock, 1912 (original combination) Botryllus bivittatus Milne-Edwards, 1841 (original combination) Botryllus calendula Giard, 1872 (original combination) Botryllus calyculatus Alder & Hancock, 1907 (original combination) Botryllus castaneus Alder & Hancock, 1848 (original combination) Botryllus gemmeus Savigny, 1816 (original combination) Botryllus gouldii Verrill, 1871 (original combination) Botryllus marionis Giard, 1872 (original combination) Botryllus miniatus Alder & Hancock, 1912 (original combination) Botryllus minutus Savigny, 1816 (original combination) Botryllus morio Giard, 1872 (original combination) Botryllus polycyclus Savigny, 1816 (original combination) Botryllus pruinosus Giard, 1872 (original combination) Botryllus rubens Alder & Hancock, 1848 (original combination) Botryllus rubigo Giard, 1872 (original combination) Botryllus smaragdus Milne-Edwards, 1841 (original combination) Botryllus stellatus Gaertner, 1774 (original combination) Botryllus violaceus Milne-Edwards, 1841 (synonym) Botryllus violatinctus Hartmeyer, 1909 (original combination) Botryllus virescens Alder & Hancock, 1848 (original combination) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Millar, R.H. (1955). On a collection of ascidians from South Africa. Proc. Zool. Soc.. Lond. 125(1): 169-221. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [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: Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia Mem. Qd Mus. 23: 1-440. [details] additional source: Kott, P. ; Esnal, G. (2009). Tunicata. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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] from synonym: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Milne-Edwards (1841) Observation sur les Ascidies composees des cotes de la Manche Mem. Acad. Sci. Inst. Fr., 18: 217-326. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Alder, J., Hancock (1905-1912) The British Tunicata. London, Ray Society, vol.1 (1905), 146pp; 2 (1907), vol.2 (1907), 164pp; vol.3, (1912), 113pp. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Savigny, J.C. (1816) Memoires sur les animaux sans vertebres. Paris., 2, 1-239. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Alder, J., A. Hancock (1848) Additions to the mollusca of Northumberland and Durham. Trans. Tyneside Field Club, 1: 195-207. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Gaertner, J. (1774) Zoophyta, quaedam minuta. In: Pallas, P.S., Specilegia Zoologia fasc. 10: 24-41. Berolini: G.A. Lange., available online at http://archive.org/stream/spicilegiazoolog110pall#page/40/mode/2up [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Turton, W. (1807) In: The British Fauna, containing a compendium of the Zoology of the British Islands. Swansea: J. Evans [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Dalyell, J.D. (1839) Edinburgh New Philosophy Journal 26: 162-158 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Giard, A. (1872) Rechkerches sur les ascidies composees on synascidies Arch. Zol. Exp., 1: 501-704. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Hartmeyer, R. (1909-1911) Ascidien (continuation of work by Seeliger). In: Bronn, H.G., Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-reichs. Leipzig, 3, suppl. psts. 81-98,: 1281-1773. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canada [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kerkennah Islands [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Coast of Norway [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Sas van Goes [details] South Africa (country) [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] Zeeland [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Botryllophilus ruber Hesse, 1864 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Botryllophilus ruber Hesse, 1864 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Mychophilus palmatus López-González & Conradi, 1996 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mychophilus roseus Hesse, 1866 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mychophilus roseus Hesse, 1866 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Zygomolgus poucheti (Canu, 1891) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (30 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (100484 nucleotides; 1828 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton feeder [details] Dimensions: colonies extend 75-100 mm [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to North Carolina [details] Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details] Habitat: circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Remark: Millar, 1955 placed this species in Botryllidae [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:103862 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766). 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=103862 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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