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Polycarpa obtecta Traustedt, 1883 
AphiaID: 253537

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Polycarpa (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Polycarpa spongiabilis Traustedt, 1883
Rank Species
Parent Polycarpa Heller, 1877
Synonymised
taxa
  Stylea obtecta (synonym)
Sources  original description: Traustedt, M.P.A. (1883) Vestindiske Ascidiae Simplices, Anden Afdeling. Molgulidae og Cynthiadae Vid. Meddel. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn, ann.1882: 108-136. [details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution West Central Atlantic [details]
Host of  Ascidicola rosea Thorell, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:253537
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-12-05 14:57:18Z  created  Sanamyan, Karen
2010-07-01 23:51:47Z  changed  Gittenberger, Arjan
  
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  Citation: Gittenberger, A.; Sanamyan, K. (2013). Polycarpa obtecta Traustedt, 1883. 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=253537 on 2013-05-22
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