African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Polycarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898)

AfReMaS name details

Polycarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898)

AphiaID

215950 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215950)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Polyandrocarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898)

Rank

Species

Parent

Polycarpa Heller, 1877

Original name

Styela anguinea Sluiter, 1898

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Sluiter, C. P. (1898). Beitrage zur kenntnis der fauna von Sud-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. II. Tunicaten von Süd-Afrika. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. 11: 1-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.26904 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2021). Ascidiacea World Database. Polycarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215950 on 2026-09-17

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Polycarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215950 on 2026-09-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2003-07-23 09:17:31Z

created

Vicky

2007-12-05 12:32:01Z

checked

Sanamyan, Karen

2010-07-01 23:51:47Z

changed

Gittenberger, Arjan

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original description (of ) Sluiter, C. P. (1898). Beitrage zur kenntnis der fauna von Sud-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. II. Tunicaten von Süd-Afrika. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. 11: 1-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.26904 [details]

basis of record Monniot, C.; Monniot, F. (1976). Ascidies de la Côte du Mozambique. [Ascidians from the Mozambique coast.]. Rev. Zool. Afr. 90(2): 357-392. [details] Available for editors

additional source Monniot, C. (2002). Stolidobranch ascidians from the tropical western Indian Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135: 65-120., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00017.x [details] Available for editors

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

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)