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Molgula pugetiensis Herdman, 1898 
AphiaID: 250912

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Molgulidae (Family) > Molgula (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Molgula Forbes, 1848
Synonymised
taxa		  Caesira apoploa Huntsman, 1912 (original combination)
 Caesira hecateia Huntsman, 1912 (original combination)
 Caesira pugetiensis (Herdman, 1898) (new combination)
Sources  original description: Herdman, W.A. (1898) Descriptions of simple ascidians collected in Puget Sound, Pacific coast Proc. and Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc., 12: 248-267. [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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

original description (from synonym): Huntsman, A.G. (1912) Ascidians from the coasts of Canada Trans. Canadian Inst., ann.1911: 111-148. [details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution East North Pacific [details]
Feedingtypes  larva: not feeding [details]
adult: suspension feeder [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To ITIS
Images 
Molgula pugetiensis is a Pacific tailless ascidian within the Roscovita clade of molgulids
Molgula pugetiensis is a Pacific tailless ascidian within the Roscovita clade of molgulids
added on 2010-09-06 - author: Maliska, M. and Swalla, Billie J. ()
qualitystatus: checked by Swalla, Billie J. on 2010-09-06 08:27:02

Molgula pugetiensis is a Pacific tailless ascidian within the Roscovita clade of molgulids
Molgula pugetiensis is a Pacific tailless ascidian within the Roscovita clade of molgulids
added on 2010-09-06 - author: Swalla, Billie J.
qualitystatus: checked by Swalla, Billie J. on 2010-09-06 08:35:35
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250912
Taxonomic
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2007-12-05 12:32:01Z  created  Sanamyan, Karen
  
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  Citation: Sanamyan, K. (2013). Molgula pugetiensis Herdman, 1898. 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=250912 on 2013-06-19
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