WoRMS taxon details
Botryllus elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
AphiaID: 250091
AphiaID: 250091
| 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 |
Botryllus anomalus Millar, 1962 (original combination) Chorizocarpa elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (new combination) Distomus elegans Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 (original combination) Synstyela monocarpa Sluiter, 1898 (original combination) | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Monniot, C., F. Monniot, C.L. Griffiths, M. Schleyer (2001) South African Ascidians Annals of the South African Museum, 108(1): 1-141 [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Monniot, C. & F. Monniot (1976). Ascidies de la Côte du Mozambique. [Ascidians from the Mozambique coast.] Rev. Zool. Afr. (1974) 90(2): 357-392. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Millar, R.H. (1962). Further descriptions of South African ascidians. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 46(7): 113-221 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Quoy, J., A. Gaimard (1834) Animaux Mollusques. In: Voyages de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe exkecutes par orde du Roi, pendant les annees 1826-29, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie, Paris, 3: 559-625. [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: Sluiter, C.P. (1898) Beitrage zur kenntnis der fauna von Sud-Afrika Zool. Jahrb., Syst, 11: 1-64. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa [details] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250091 | |||||||
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K. (2013). Botryllus elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). 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=250091 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||
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