Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)

Kakkonen, Jenni E., Worsfold, Tim M., Ashelby, Christopher W., Taylor, Andrea & Beaton, Katy, 2019, The value of regular monitoring and diverse sampling techniques to assess aquatic non-native species: a case study from Orkney, Management of Biological Invasions 10 (1), pp. 46-79 : 63

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3391/mbi.2019.10.1.04

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E187DA-FF98-FFF8-A76B-F558FA45F88B

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766)
status

 

(26) Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1766) View in CoL

Status in U.K. – cryptogenic.

Botryllus schlosseri (“star ascidian”) has been recorded at several monitoring programme sites, each year since 2012, from settlement panel, rapid assessment and scrape samples, and has also been recorded from renewable energy structures ( Want et al. 2017).

It is considered cryptogenic in Europe ( López-Legentil and Legentil 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Stolidobranchia

Family

Styelidae

Genus

Botryllus

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