| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Halocynthia Verrill, 1879 |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Cynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806) (new combination)
Pyura pectinicola Michaelsen, 1908 (original combination)
Pyura pyriformis (Rathke, 1806) (new combination)
Rhabdocynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806) (new combination)
Tethyum pyriforme (Rathke, 1806) (new combination)
Tethyum pyriformis (synonym)
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| Sources | |
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: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Michaelsen, W (1908) Die Pyuriden (Halocynthiiden) des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg Jahrb. Wiss. Anst., Hamburg, 25, suppl.2: 227-287. [details] [view taxon]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
sea peach |
[details] |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
pæresjøpung |
[details] |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
pæresjøpung |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Joes Point [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
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| Host of | |
Lichomolgus canui Sars G.O., 1917 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Diet: plankton feeder [details]
Dimensions: 62 mm in size [details]
Distribution: Arctic to Massachusetts [details]
Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details]
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| Images | | 
Halocynthia pyriformis
added on 2010-03-11 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Halocynthia and Boltenia - sea peaches with 1 sea potato.
added on 2011-02-18 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103828 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Halocynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806). 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=103828 on 2013-05-26 |
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