Phallusia nigra Savigny, 1816 
AphiaID: 103725

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Tunicata > Ascidiacea > Phlebobranchia > Ascidiidae > Phallusia

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Phallusia Savigny, 1816
Synonymised taxa		Ascidia atra Lesueur, 1823 (original combination) Ascidia nigra (Savigny, 1816) (synonym) Ascidia somalensis Sluiter, 1905 (synonym) Ascidia somaliensis Sluiter, 1905 Phallusia atra (Lesueur, 1823) (new combination) Phallusia violacea Gould, 1852 (original combination) Phallusiopsis nigra (Savigny, 1816) (new combination) Thallusia nigra (Savigny, 1816) (misspelling) Tunica nigra (Savigny, 1816) (new combination)
Sources		original description: Savigny, J.C. (1816) Memoires sur les animaux sans vertebres. Paris., 2, 1-239. [details] additional source: Bonnet, N. Y. K. and Rocha, R. M. 2011. The Ascidiidae (Ascidiacea: Tunicata) of coastal Brazil. Zoological Studies 50: 809-825. [details] additional source: Millar, R.H. (1975). Ascidians from the Indo-West-Pacific region in the zoological museum, Copenhagen (Tunicata, Ascidiacea). Steenstrupia 3(20): 205-336. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Lesueur, C.A. Descriptions of several new species of Ascidia. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol.3: 2-8 [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: Gould, A.A. (1852) Mollusca and shells. In: United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. Boston, vol.12: 1-510; atlas 1856: 1-16 [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Djibouti (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East North Atlantic [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Indian Ocean [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Red Sea [details] Venezuela (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Host of		Notodelphys ciliata Schellenberg, 1922 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Bonnierilla yangpoensis Kim, I.H. & Moon, 2011 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS
Note		Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103725
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Monniot, Claude 2007-12-05 12:32:01Z   checked   Sanamyan, Karen
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		Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Phallusia nigra Savigny, 1816. In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turron, X. (2013) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turron, X. (2013) Ascidiacea World Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/ascidiacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103725 on 2013-05-23