Halocynthia aurantium (Pallas, 1787) 
AphiaID: 250674

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Tunicata > Ascidiacea > Stolidobranchia > Pyuridae > Halocynthia

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Halocynthia Verrill, 1879
Synonymised taxa		Ascidia aurantium Pallas, 1787 (original combination) Cynthia deani Ritter, 1900 (original combination) Cynthia superba Ritter, 1900 (original combination) Halocynthia deani (Ritter, 1900) (new combination) Halocynthia superba (Ritter, 1900) (new combination) Pyura aurantium (Pallas, 1787) (new combination) Tethyum aurantium (Pallas, 1787) (new combination)
Sources		basis of record: 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: Pallas, P.S. (1787) Marina varia nova et rariora. Nova Acta Acad. Petropolis, vol2: 229-249 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ritter, W.E. (1900) Some ascidians from Puget Sound, collection of 1896 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 12(14): 589-616. [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
Distribution		Northern North Pacific [details]
Host of		Pygodelphys aquilonaris Illg, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To ITIS
Note		Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250674
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2007-12-05 12:32:01Z   created   Sanamyan, Karen
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		Citation: Sanamyan, K. (2013). Halocynthia aurantium (Pallas, 1787). 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=250674 on 2013-05-22