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Botryllus planus (Van Name, 1902) 
AphiaID: 215992

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Botryllus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Botryllus Gaertner, 1774
Synonymised
taxa
  Botrylloides namei (Hartmeyer & Michaelsen, 1928) (new combination)
Botrylloides planus (synonym)
Botryllus namei Hartmeyer & Michaelsen, 1928 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [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]

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: Hartmeyer, R., W. Michaelsen (1928) Ascidiae Dictyobranhiae und Ptychobranchiae Fauna Sudwest. Australians, 5: 251-460. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mozambique [details]
West Central Atlantic [details]
Western South Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Remark: In family 'Botryllidae' in Kalk (1958). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215992
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2000-09-11 06:47:01Z  created  Govaerts, Ann
2000-09-14 06:49:43Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2007-12-05 12:32:01Z  checked  Sanamyan, Karen
2009-05-02 13:35:44Z  changed  Moreira da Rocha, Rosana
2009-07-20 21:22:57Z  changed  Gittenberger, Arjan
  
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  Citation: Gittenberger, A.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Sanamyan, K. (2013). Botryllus planus (Van Name, 1902). 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=215992 on 2013-05-22
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