Styela canopus (Savigny, 1816) 
AphiaID: 103926

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Styela Fleming, 1822
Synonymised taxa		Styela partita (Stimpson, 1852) (new combination)
Sources		basis of record: Monniot, C. (2001). Ascidiacea & Sorberacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 352-355 (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] additional source: Rocha, R. M. & N. Y. K. Bonnet. 2009. Ascídias (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) introduzidas no Arquipélago de Alcatrazes, São Paulo. Iheringia, Sér. Zool., 99(1):27-35. [details] additional source: Cole, L. and G. Lambert. 2009. Tunicata (Urochordata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1209–1216 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Rocha, R.M.; Bonnet, N.Y.K; Baptista, M.S.; Beltramin, F. S. 2012. Introduced and native Phlebobranch and Stolidobranch solitary ascidians (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) around Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Zoologia 29(1):39-53 page(s): 50 [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] [view taxon] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English rough sea squirt (from synonym)  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Atlantic Coast of South America [details] Cobscook Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Greens Point (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Coast of England (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Western South Atlantic [details]
Host of		Doropygopsis novemsetiferus (Schellenberg, 1922) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
Note		Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103926
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Monniot, Claude 2007-12-05 12:32:01Z   checked   Sanamyan, Karen
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		Citation: Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2013). Styela canopus (Savigny, 1816). In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turron, X. (2013) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103926 on 2013-05-23