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Styela plicata (Lesueur, 1823) 
AphiaID: 103936

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
  Ascidia cuviera Delle Chiaje, 1841 (misspelling)
Ascidia cuvieri Delle Chiaje, 1841 (original combination)
Ascidia patata Costa, 1844 (original combination)
Ascidia phusca Delle Chiaje, 1828 (original combination)
Ascidia plicata Lesueur, 1823 (original combination)
Phallusia sulcata Delle Chiaje, 1841 (original combination)
Styela gyrosa Heller, 1877 (original combination)
Styela pinguis Herdman, 1899 (original combination)
Styela pinguis Herdman, 1898
Tethyum plicata (synonym)
Tethyum plicatum (Lesueur, 1823) (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]

basis of record: Monniot, F. & C. Monniot (1997). Ascidians collected in Tanzania. [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: 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: Delle Chiaje, S. (1841) Descrizione e Notomia degli Animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli Anni 1822-30. 3. 5. 6 (Atlas) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Costa (1844) Di alcune specie di Ascidie. In: Atti. Acc. Sci. Napoli, 5 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Delle Chiaje, S. (1828) Memorie sulla Storia e Notomia degli Animali senza Vertebre del Regno di Napoli. 3. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Heller, C. (1877) Untersuchungen uber die Tunicaten des Adriatischen und Mittelmeeres Denkschen. Acad. Wiss. Wien, 37: 241-275. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Herdman, W.A. (1899) Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Liverpol, 139pp. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lesueur, C.A. Descriptions of several new species of Ascidia. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol.3: 2-8 [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Modern Greek (1453-) Πατάτα θάλασσας  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Henicoxiphium redactum Illg & Humes, 1971 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pachypygus macer Illg, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lichomolgus infirmus Moon & I.H. Kim, 2011 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (216 nucleotides; 253 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: circum-global [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103936
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). Styela plicata (Lesueur, 1823). 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=103936 on 2013-05-22
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