Botrylloides nigrum Herdman, 1886 
AphiaID: 215857

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Botrylloides Milne-Edwards, 1841
Synonymised taxa		Botrylloides chazaliei Sluiter, 1898 (original combination) Botrylloides niger Herdman, 1886 (misspelling) Botryllus niger (Herdman, 1886) (misspelling) Botryllus nigrum (Herdman, 1886) (new combination) Metrocarpa nigrum (Herdman, 1886) (new combination)
Sources		original description: 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] basis of record: Millar, R.H. (1988). Ascidians collected during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. J. Nat. Hist. 22: 823-848. (look up in IMIS) [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] from synonym: Sluiter, C.P. (1898) Tuniciers recueilli en 1896, par la Charalie, dans la mer des Antilles Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 11: 5-34. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, terrestrial
Distribution		Circum-equitorial (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Western South Atlantic [details]
Host of		Mychophilus fallax Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mychophilus fallax Stock, 1967 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Ophioseides elongatus Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Periproctia triuncata Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Thoracodelphys chelipus Stock, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection To ITIS
Notes		Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Remark: Millar, 1955 placed this species in Botryllidae [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215857
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2003-07-24 13:14:45Z   created   Vicky 2003-07-28 07:55:41Z   changed   Vicky 2007-12-05 12:32:01Z   checked   Sanamyan, Karen 2009-05-02 13:35:44Z   changed   Moreira da Rocha, Rosana 2011-06-01 17:56:29Z   changed   Moreira da Rocha, Rosana
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		Citation: Moreira da Rocha, R.; Sanamyan, K. (2013). Botrylloides nigrum Herdman, 1886. 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=215857 on 2013-05-21