UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Polycitor giganteus (Herdman, 1899)

WoRMS taxon details

Polycitor giganteus (Herdman, 1899)

AphiaID

251089 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:251089)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Polycitor [Renier], [1804]

Original name

Polyclinum giganteum Herdman, 1899

Synonymised names

Polycitor giganteum Herdman, 1898 · unaccepted > nomen nudum

Polyclinum giganteum Herdman, 1899 · unaccepted (original combination)

Polyclinum globosum Herdman, 1899 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Polyclinum giganteum Herdman, 1899) Herdman, W. A. (1899). Descriptive catalogue of the tunicata in the Australian Museum Sydney N.S.W. Austr. Mus. Sydney Catal. 17: 1-139. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Polycitor giganteus (Herdman, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=251089 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-12-05 12:32:01Z

created

Sanamyan, Karen

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Polyclinum giganteum Herdman, 1899) Herdman, W. A. (1899). Descriptive catalogue of the tunicata in the Australian Museum Sydney N.S.W. Austr. Mus. Sydney Catal. 17: 1-139. [details]

original description (of Polyclinum globosum Herdman, 1899) Herdman, W. A. (1899). Descriptive catalogue of the tunicata in the Australian Museum Sydney N.S.W. Austr. Mus. Sydney Catal. 17: 1-139. [details]

basis of record Kott, P. (1990). The Australian Ascidiacea, part 2, Aplousobranchia (1). Mem. Qd Mus. 29(1): 1-226. [details] Available for editors

[request]

Other

additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Genetic nomenclature abbreviation Pcrgig [details]

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Polyclinum globosum Herdman, 1899)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Polycitor giganteum Herdman, 1898)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Polyclinum giganteum Herdman, 1899)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polycitor giganteus)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Polyclinum giganteum Herdman, 1899)