WoRMS taxon details
Didemnum candidum Savigny, 1816
AphiaID: 146902
AphiaID: 146902
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Aplousobranchia (Order) > Didemnidae (Family) > Didemnum (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Didemnum Savigny, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Didemnum annectens (Herdman, 1886) (new combination) Didemnum fusiferum Van Name, 1921 (original combination) Didemnum novaeseelandiae Hartmeyer, 1909 (original combination) Leptoclinides africanus Michaelsen, 1914 (original combination) Leptoclinum africanus (Michaelsen, 1914) (new combination) Leptoclinum annectens Herdman, 1886 (original combination) Leptoclinum candidum (Savigny, 1816) (new combination) Leptoclinum cretaceum Sluiter, 1898 (original combination) Leptoclinum niveum Nott, 1892 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Savigny, J.C. (1816) Memoires sur les animaux sans vertebres. Paris., 2, 1-239. [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Fishelson, L., 1971. Ecology and distribution of the benthic fauna in the shallow waters of the Red Sea. Marine Biology, 10/2: 113-133. [details] [full text] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 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: 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] from synonym: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Van Name (1921) Ascidians of the West Indian region and southeastern United States Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 44: 283-494. [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] from synonym: Michaelsen, W (1914) Diagnosen einiger neuen westafrikenischen Ascidien Jahrb. Wiss. Anst., Hamburg, 31, suppl.2: 75-79. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Herdman, W.A. (1886) Report on the Tunicata collected during the years 1873-1876. Part 2, Ascidiae compositae Zool. Chall. Exp. 14(38): 1-425. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Sluiter, C.P. (1898) Beitrage zur kenntnis der fauna von Sud-Afrika Zool. Jahrb., Syst, 11: 1-64. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Nott, J. (1892) On the compositae ascidians of the North Shore Reef Trans. N.Z.Inst., 24: 303-395. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Canada [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Madagascar [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Achelidelphys steinitzi Lafargue & Laubier, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Prophioseides biramus Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Demoixys abdominalis Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Ooneides amela Chatton & Brément, 1915 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton feeder [details] Dimensions: colonies extend 75-100 mm to 5 mm thick [details] Distribution: lower St. Lawrence estuary [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146902 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Moreira da Rocha, R.; Sanamyan, K. (2013). Didemnum candidum. 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=146902 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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