WoRMS taxon details
Styela clava Herdman, 1881
AphiaID: 103929
AphiaID: 103929
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Styela (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Styela Fleming, 1822 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Botryorchis clava (Herdman, 1881) (new combination) Styela barnharti Ritter & Forsyth, 1917 (synonym) Styela mammiculata Carlisle, 1954 (original combination) Tethyum clava (Herdman, 1881) (new combination) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Herdman, W.A. (1881) Preliminary report on the Tunicata of the Challenger expedition. Cynthiidae. Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh, 11(3): 52-88 [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: 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: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (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] from synonym: Ritter, W.E., R,.H. Forsyth (1917) Ascidian of the littoral zone of southern California Univ. California Publ., Zool., 16: 439-512. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [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: Carlisle, D.B. (1954) Styela mammiculata n.sp., a new species of ascidians from the Plymonth area J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 33: 329-334. [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 | Ardrossan [details] Atlantic Europe [details] Baltic sea [details] Belgian Coast [details] Bretagne [details] Dunkerque [details] East North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] German Bight [details] Grevelingen [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Knokke-Heist [details] Le Havre [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] Oosterschelde [details] Panama [details] Plymouth [details] Roscoff [details] South Brazil [details] South Coast of England [details] Spuikom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wales [details] West North Pacific [details] Wimereux [details] Zeebrugge [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Ascidicola rosea Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Notodelphys elegans Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Haplostomella halocynthiae (Fukui, 1965) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Haplostoma kimi Seo & Lee, 2001 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Styela clava Global invasive species database - Styela clava Guide to the exotic species of San Francisco bay - Styela clava Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (32 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (100 nucleotides; 92 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Alien species: The folded sea squirt Styela clava originates from the Asian coasts. Transport through attachment on war ships brought the species to Europe, where it was first noticed in England around 1953. In 1986 the first specimen was found on the Belgian coast, on a groyne at Knokke-Heist. Now, the species is found in the Sluice dock in Ostend and all ports and marinas in Belgium, except in Nieuwpoort. The folded sea squirt is mostly found along sheltered coasts, to a depth of 40 meters. The species has a great adaptability, and can tolerate large changes in temperature and salinity. [details] Distribution: accidently introduced in England (around Plymouth) through Japonese oysters during the early fifties. At that time erroneously identified as Styela mammiculata (Carlisle, 1954) [details] Publication date: Herdman, 1882 [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103929 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gittenberger, A.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Styela clava Herdman, 1881. 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=103929 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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