Ascidiacea taxon details
Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766) AphiaID: 103862
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Botryllus Gaertner, 1774 |
Synonymised
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Alcyonium borlasii Turton, 1807 (original combination)
Alcyonium schlosseri Pallas, 1766 (original combination)
Aplidium verrucosum Dalyell, 1839 (original combination)
Botryllus aurolineatus Giard, 1872 (original combination)
Botryllus badium Alder & Hancock, 1912 (literature misspelling)
Botryllus badius Alder & Hancock, 1912 (original combination)
Botryllus bivittatus Milne-Edwards, 1841 (original combination)
Botryllus calendula Giard, 1872 (original combination)
Botryllus calyculatus Alder & Hancock, 1907 (original combination)
Botryllus castaneus Alder & Hancock, 1848 (original combination)
Botryllus gemmeus Savigny, 1816 (original combination)
Botryllus gouldii Verrill, 1871 (original combination)
Botryllus marionis Giard, 1872 (original combination)
Botryllus miniatus Alder & Hancock, 1912 (original combination)
Botryllus minutus Savigny, 1816 (original combination)
Botryllus morio Giard, 1872 (original combination)
Botryllus polycyclus Savigny, 1816 (original combination)
Botryllus pruinosus Giard, 1872 (original combination)
Botryllus rubens Alder & Hancock, 1848 (original combination)
Botryllus rubigo Giard, 1872 (original combination)
Botryllus smaragdus Milne-Edwards, 1841 (original combination)
Botryllus stellatus Gaertner, 1774 (original combination)
Botryllus violaceus Milne-Edwards, 1841 (synonym)
Botryllus violatinctus Hartmeyer, 1909 (original combination)
Botryllus virescens Alder & Hancock, 1848 (original combination)
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| Sources | |
basis of record: Millar, R.H. (1955). On a collection of ascidians from South Africa. Proc. Zool. Soc.. Lond. 125(1): 169-221. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia Mem. Qd Mus. 23: 1-440. [details]
from synonym: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [view taxon] [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: Milne-Edwards (1841) Observation sur les Ascidies composees des cotes de la Manche Mem. Acad. Sci. Inst. Fr., 18: 217-326. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Alder, J., Hancock (1905-1912) The British Tunicata. London, Ray Society, vol.1 (1905), 146pp; 2 (1907), vol.2 (1907), 164pp; vol.3, (1912), 113pp. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Savigny, J.C. (1816) Memoires sur les animaux sans vertebres. Paris., 2, 1-239. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Verrill, A.E. (1871) Descriptions of some imperfectly known and new ascidians from New England Amer. Jour. Sci, ser.3, 1: 54-58, 93-100, 211-212, 288-294, 443-446. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Alder, J., A. Hancock (1848) Additions to the mollusca of Northumberland and Durham. Trans. Tyneside Field Club, 1: 195-207. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Gaertner, J. (1774) Zoophyta, quaedam minuta. In: Pallas, P.S., Specilegia Zoologia fasc. 10: 24-41. Berolini: G.A. Lange., available online at http://archive.org/stream/spicilegiazoolog110pall#page/40/mode/2up [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Turton, W. (1807) In: The British Fauna, containing a compendium of the Zoology of the British Islands. Swansea: J. Evans [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Dalyell, J.D. (1839) Edinburgh New Philosophy Journal 26: 162-158 [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Giard, A. (1872) Rechkerches sur les ascidies composees on synascidies Arch. Zol. Exp., 1: 501-704. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Hartmeyer, R. (1909-1911) Ascidien (continuation of work by Seeliger). In: Bronn, H.G., Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-reichs. Leipzig, 3, suppl. psts. 81-98,: 1281-1773. [details] [view taxon]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Dutch |
gesterde geleikorst |
[details] |
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Dutch |
paarse geleikorst |
[details] |
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English |
golden star tunicate |
[details] |
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English |
star squirt |
[details] |
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French |
botrylle étoilé |
[details] |
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German |
Stern-Seescheide |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Atlantic [details]
Azores [details]
British Isles [details]
Canada [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Coast of Norway [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Sas van Goes [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
United Kingdom [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeeland [details]
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| Feedingtype | |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Host of | |
Botryllophilus ruber Hesse, 1864 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Botryllophilus ruber Hesse, 1864 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Mychophilus palmatus López-González & Conradi, 1996 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Mychophilus roseus Hesse, 1866 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Mychophilus roseus Hesse, 1866 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Zygomolgus poucheti (Canu, 1891) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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To GenBank (100484 nucleotides; 1828 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: colonies extend 75-100 mm [details]
Distribution: Bay of Fundy to North Carolina [details]
Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details]
Habitat: circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]
Remark: Millar, 1955 placed this species in Botryllidae [details]
Reproduction: hermaphroditic; eggs shed and fertilized in the water [details]
Taxonomy: Order: Pleurogona Suborder: Stolidobranchiata, according to Trott (2004). [details]
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| Images | | 
Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)
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Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)
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Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)
added on 2007-11-27 - author: Philippart, Catharina
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Botryllus schlosseri
added on 2010-03-11 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Botryllus schlosseri
added on 2011-02-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Melisa Wong ( )
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Botryllus schlosseri
added on 2011-03-07 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada ()
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Botryllus schlosseri
added on 2011-10-30 - author: Collection VLIZ
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103862 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766). 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=103862 on 2013-05-21 |
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