Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Aplousobranchia > Family Polyclinidae > Genus Morchellium

Morchellium argus (Milne-Edwards, 1841)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Morchellium*	Giard, 1872	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Aplidium argus*	(Milne-Edwards, 1841)	synonym; comb. ined.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: colonial sesquirt sources: BIOTIC

French: flocon pédonculé rouge

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
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	UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
additional source	Millar, R.H. (1960) Ascidiacea with a key to the species. The fauna of the Clyde Sea Area Rep. Scott. mar. biol. assoc. Millport, 16p.?.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Gittenberger, A.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Sanamyan, K. (2014). Morchellium argus (Milne-Edwards, 1841). In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2014) Ascidiacea World Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148714