WoRMS taxon details
Halocynthia aurantium (Pallas, 1787)
AphiaID: 250674
AphiaID: 250674
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Pyuridae (Family) > Halocynthia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Halocynthia Verrill, 1879 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ascidia aurantium Pallas, 1787 (original combination) Cynthia deani Ritter, 1900 (original combination) Cynthia superba Ritter, 1900 (original combination) Halocynthia deani (Ritter, 1900) (new combination) Halocynthia superba (Ritter, 1900) (new combination) Pyura aurantium (Pallas, 1787) (new combination) Tethyum aurantium (Pallas, 1787) (new combination) | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Pallas, P.S. (1787) Marina varia nova et rariora. Nova Acta Acad. Petropolis, vol2: 229-249 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ritter, W.E. (1900) Some ascidians from Puget Sound, collection of 1896 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 12(14): 589-616. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Northern North Pacific [details] | |||||||
| Host of |
Pygodelphys aquilonaris Illg, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250674 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Sanamyan, K. (2013). Halocynthia aurantium (Pallas, 1787). 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=250674 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||
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