WoRMS taxon details
Botrylloides nigrum Herdman, 1886
AphiaID: 215857
AphiaID: 215857
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Botrylloides (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Botrylloides Milne-Edwards, 1841 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Botrylloides chazaliei Sluiter, 1898 (original combination) Botrylloides niger Herdman, 1886 (misspelling) Botryllus niger (Herdman, 1886) (misspelling) Botryllus nigrum (Herdman, 1886) (new combination) Metrocarpa nigrum (Herdman, 1886) (new combination) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] basis of record: Millar, R.H. (1988). Ascidians collected during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. J. Nat. Hist. 22: 823-848. (look up in IMIS) [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: Rocha, R. M. & N. Y. K. Bonnet. 2009. Ascídias (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) introduzidas no Arquipélago de Alcatrazes, São Paulo. Iheringia, Sér. Zool., 99(1):27-35. [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] from synonym: Sluiter, C.P. (1898) Tuniciers recueilli en 1896, par la Charalie, dans la mer des Antilles Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 11: 5-34. [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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Circum-equitorial (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Western South Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Mychophilus fallax Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Mychophilus fallax Stock, 1967 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Ophioseides elongatus Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Periproctia triuncata Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Thoracodelphys chelipus Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Remark: Millar, 1955 placed this species in Botryllidae [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215857 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Moreira da Rocha, R.; Sanamyan, K. (2013). Botrylloides nigrum Herdman, 1886. 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=215857 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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