Polyzoa opuntia Lesson, 1830 
AphiaID: 173973

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Tunicata > Ascidiacea > Stolidobranchia > Styelidae > Polyzoa

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Polyzoa Lesson, 1831
Synonymised taxa		Goodsiria coccinea Cunningham, 1871 (original combination) Goodsiria pedunculata Herdman, 1886 (original combination) Polyzoa coccinea (Cunningham, 1871) (new combination) Polyzoa falclandica Michaelsen, 1900 (original combination) Polyzoa falklandica Michaelsen, 1900 (literature misspelling) Polyzoa gordiana Michaelsen, 1900 (original combination) Polyzoa herdmani Michaelsen, 1900 (original combination) Polyzoa lennoxensis Michaelsen, 1900 (original combination) Polyzoa pictonis Michaelsen, 1900 (original combination)
Sources		original description: Lesson, R.P. (1830) Centuria zoologique. Paris, 244 p. [details] 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] original description (from synonym): Cunningham, R.O., 1871. Notes on the Reptiles, Amphibia, Fishes, Mollusca, and Crustacea obtained during the voyage of H.M.S. ’Nassau’ in the years 1866-69.— Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27: 465-502, Plates 58-59.  [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Herdman, W.A. (1886) Report on the Tunicata collected during the years 1873-1876. Part 2, Ascidiae compositae Zool. Chall. Exp. 14(38): 1-425. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Michaelsen, W (1900) Die holosomen ascidien des magalhaenisch- sudgeorgischen Gebietes Zologica, 12(31): 1-148. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine
Distribution		New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Ocean [details]
Host of		Enteropsis georgianus Schellenberg, 1922 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:173973
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-13 08:57:19Z   created   Cuvelier, Daphne 2007-12-05 12:32:01Z   checked   Sanamyan, Karen
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		Citation: Sanamyan, K. (2013). Polyzoa opuntia Lesson, 1830. 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=173973 on 2013-06-20