Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Stolidobranchia > Family Pyuridae > Genus Microcosmus

Microcosmus exasperatus Heller, 1878

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

MicrocosmusHeller, 1877accepted genus name

Literature

original description

Heller, C. (1878) Beitrage zur nahern Kenntniss der Tunicaten Sitzber. Acad. Wiss. Wien, 77(1): 2-28.

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

Monniot, C. & F. Monniot (1976). Ascidies de la Côte du Mozambique. [Ascidians from the Mozambique coast.] Rev. Zool. Afr. (1974) 90(2): 357-392.

additional source

Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453

additional source

Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia Mem. Qd Mus. 23: 1-440.

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

Rocha, R.M.; Bonnet, N.Y.K; Baptista, M.S.; Beltramin, F. S. 2012. Introduced and native Phlebobranch and Stolidobranch solitary ascidians (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) around Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Zoologia 29(1):39-53

additional source

UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
GBIF

Citation

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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2011-07-18 by Rosana Moreira da Rocha

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