Ascidiacea taxon details
Boltenia echinata (Linnaeus, 1767) AphiaID: 103814
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Boltenia Savigny, 1816 |
Synonymised
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Ascidia echinata Linnaeus, 1767 (original combination)
Ascidia hirsuta Agassiz, 1850 (original combination)
Boltenia arctica (Hartmeyer, 1899) (new combination)
Boltenia hirsuta (Agassiz, 1850) (new combination)
Cynthia arctica Hartmeyer, 1899 (original combination)
Cynthia echinata (Linnaeus, 1767) (new combination)
Cynthia hirsuta (Agassiz, 1850) (new combination)
Halocynthia arctica (Hartmeyer, 1899) (new combination)
Halocynthia echinata (Linnaeus, 1767) (new combination)
Microcosmus echinatus (Linnaeus, 1767) (new combination)
Pyura arctica (Hartmeyer, 1899) (new combination)
Pyura echinata (Linnaeus, 1767) (new combination)
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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]
from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [view taxon] [full text]
from synonym: Agassiz, L. (1850) On the embryology of Ascidia and the characteristis of new species from the shores of Massachusetts Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 2: 157-159. [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: Hartmeyer, R. (1899) Die Monascidien der Bremer Expedition nach Ostspitzbergen Zool. Jahrb., Sys., 12: 453-511. [details] [view taxon]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
cactus sea squirt |
[details] |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
kaktussekkdyr |
[details] |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
kaktussekkdyr |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Arctic Ocean [details]
Atlantic [details]
Canada [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Joes Point [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saint Andrews [details]
Scotland [details]
Simpson Island [details]
USA [details]
West Coast of Norway [details]
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| Feedingtype | |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Host of | |
Doropygus demissus Aurivillius, 1885 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Diet: plankton feeder [details]
Dimensions: 34 mm in size [details]
Distribution: Arctic south to Cape Cod [details]
Distribution: Not found in southern Britain [details]
Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]
Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details]
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Boltenia echinata (pair)
added on 2011-09-04 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ( )
qualitystatus: checked by Moreira da Rocha, Rosana on 2012-09-22 21:14:51 |
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Boltenia echinata (macro)
added on 2012-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: checked by Moreira da Rocha, Rosana on 2012-09-22 21:15:06 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103814 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Boltenia echinata (Linnaeus, 1767). 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=103814 on 2013-05-23 |
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