Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Aplousobranchia > Family Didemnidae > Genus Diplosoma

Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Leptoclinum Milne Edwards, 1842

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diplosoma*	Macdonald, 1859	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: geleikorstzakpijp; grijze korstzakpijp sources: Soortenbank.nl - dieren, planten en paddenstoelen in Nederland;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

English: gray encrusting compound tunicate; Lister's didemnid

French: didemne gélatineux et transparent; didemnide de lister sources: Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.

German: Krusten-Seescheide

Literature

basis of record	Monniot, F. (1994). Ascidies de Nouvelle-Caledonie. 14. Le genre Diplosoma (Didemnidae). Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4 ser. 16 A (1): 3-11.
basis of record	Monniot, C.; Monniot, F. (1987). Les ascidies de Polynesie francaise. Mem. mus. nat. hist natur, A. 136: 1-155.
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.
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.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Monniot, F.; Monniot, C. (1997). Ascidians Collected in Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History. 86(1), 1-35.
additional source	Rocha, R. M.; Bonnet, N. Y. K. (2009). Ascídias (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) introduzidas no Arquipélago de Alcatrazes, São Paulo. Iheringia, Sér. Zool. 99(1):27-35.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Kott, P. (2001). The australian Ascidiacea Part 4, Aplousobranchia (3), Didemnidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 47(1): 1-407.
additional source	Rocha, R. M.; Dias, G. M.; Lotufo, T. M. C. (2011). Checklist of ascidians (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) from Sao Paulo State, Brazil. Biota Neotrop. 11(1a): 1-11.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Kott, P.; Bradford-Grieve, J.; Esnal, G.; Murdoch, R.C. (2009). Phylum Tunicata: sea squirts, salps, appendicularians, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 409-430.
additional source	Rocha, R. M.; Moreno, T. R. (2000). Ascidians associated with Eudistoma carolinense van Name, 1945. With description of a new species of Polycarpa. Ophelia. 52(1): 9-16.
additional source	Rocha, R. M.; Teixeira, J. A.; Barros, R. C. D. (2021). Genetic diversity in the Diplosoma listerianum complex (Ascidiacea: Didemnidae) from the Western Atlantic. Systematics and Biodiversity. 19(8): 1149-1163.
biology source	Tepolt, C. K. (2014). Adaptation in marine invasion: a genetic perspective. Biological Invasions. 17(3): 887-903.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103579