WoRMS taxon details
Amaroucium stellatum Verrill, 1871
AphiaID: 159946
AphiaID: 159946
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Aplousobranchia (Order) > Polyclinidae (Family) > Amaroucium (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (original combination) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Aplidium stellatum (Verrill, 1871) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Amaroucium Milne-Edwards, 1841 accepted as Aplidium Savigny, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p. [details] 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 | Atlantic [details] Canada [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton feeder [details] Dimensions: colonies speading 300 mm to 25 mm thick [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Gulf of Mexico [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Predators: sharks, skates and other bottom feeding fishes [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159946 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K. (2013). Amaroucium stellatum Verrill, 1871. 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=159946 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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