Styela canopus (Savigny, 1816)

Jaffarali, Abdul, Akram, Soban A & Arshan, Kaleem ML, 2016, New distributional data on ascidian fauna (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) from Mandapam coast, Gulf of Mannar, India, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7855-7855 : 7855

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7855

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scientific name

Styela canopus (Savigny, 1816)
status

 

Styela canopus (Savigny, 1816)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DBTICMPM05 ; recordedBy: Abdul Jaffarali et al.; individualCount: 2; sex: Hermophrodite; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: Invasive; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Tunicata; class: Ascidiacea; order: Stolidobranchia; family: Styelidae; genus: Styela; specificEpithet: canopus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Savigny, 1816); Location: continent: Asia; country: India; stateProvince: Tamil Nadu; municipality: Ramanathapuram; locality: Mandapam ; locationRemarks: Intertidal flats and shallow water; decimalLatitude: 9.2856; decimalLongitude: 79.1586; Identification: identifiedBy: Dr. H. Abdul Jaffar Ali; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: samplingProtocol: Dislodging; year: 2014; month: 3; day: 15; eventRemarks: H. Abdul Jaffarali, A. Soban Akram, M.L. Kaleem Arshan; Record Level: type: Physical Object; language: en; institutionID: IC; collectionID: MPM/PB/01; collectionCode: Ascidians; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Distribution

Japan, France, Indonesia, Hong Kong, New South Wales (Central East coast), Queensland (Central East coast, Northeast coast), Western Australia (Lower West coast, Northwest coast); Torres Strait, Coral Sea, west Pacific Ocean, Korea, tropical and temperate Atlantic Ocean, Persian Gulf, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Ascension Is., Channel Is., west coast of France.

Distribution in India

Thoothukudi coast and Vizhinjam Bay.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Ascidiacea

Order

Stolidobranchia

Family

Styelidae

Genus

Styela