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Dendrodoa carnea (Rathke, 1806) 
AphiaID: 103881

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Dendrodoa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Dendrodoa MacLeay, 1824
Synonymised
taxa
  Ascidia carnea Agassiz, 1850 (original combination)
Cynthia carnea (Agassiz, 1850) (new combination)
Cynthia gutta Stimpson, 1852 (original combination)
Styelopsis carnea (Agassiz, 1850) (new 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]

additional source: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.  [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: 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: Agassiz, L. (1850) On the embryology of Ascidia and the characteristis of new species from the shores of Massachusetts Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 2: 157-159. [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: Stimpson, W. (1852) Several new ascidians from the coast of the United States Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 4: 228-232. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English blood drop sea squirt  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Canada [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]
USA [details]
West North Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: plankton feeder [details]

Dimensions: 9 mm in size (4 lobed) [details]

Distribution: Newfoundland to Long Island Sound [details]

Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details]
Images 
Dendrodoa carnea
Dendrodoa carnea
added on 2012-01-31 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
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Dendrodoa carnea on shell
Dendrodoa carnea on shell
added on 2012-09-13 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Dendrodoa carnea close-up
Dendrodoa carnea close-up
added on 2012-09-13 - author: Nozères, Claude
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103881
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). Dendrodoa carnea (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=103881 on 2013-05-18
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