Styela montereyensis Stalked Tunicate, Monterey stalked tunicate

Styela montereyensisis commonly referred to as Stalked Tunicate, Monterey stalked tunicate. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Stalked Tunicate (Styela montereyensis)& Fluted Bryozoan(Hippodiplosia insculpta),San Nicolas Island, August 20-21, 2005

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lexID:: 10236
AphiaID:: 240756

Scientific:: Styela montereyensis
German:: Langstielige Seescheide, Monterey Seescheide
English:: Stalked Tunicate, Monterey Stalked Tunicate

Category:: Sea Squirts

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Styela (Genus) > montereyensis (Species)
Initial determination:: (Dall, ), 1872

Occurrence:: Eastern Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California, North Pacific (Ocean), USA, Western Pacific Ocean
Sea depth:: 0 - 30 Meter
Size:: 3.15" - 9.84" (8cm - 25cm)
Temperature:: ~ 50 °F (10°C)
Food:: Suspension feeder
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Styela angularis
Styela aomori
Styela atlantica
Styela barnharti
Styela bathybia
Styela bicolor
Styela brevigaster
Styela calva
Styela canopus
Einsiedler-Seescheide
Styela chaini
Styela changa
Styela charcoti
Styela clara
Styela clava
Ostasiatische Seescheide, Falten-Ascidie
Styela clavata
Styela coriacea
Styela crinita
Styela gagetyleri
Styela gelatinosa
Styela gibbsii
Styela glans
Styela grahami
Styela hadalis
Styela kottae
Styela loculosa
Styela longiducta
Styela magalhaensis
Styela mallei
Styela materna
Styela meteoris
Styela milleri
Styela montereyensis
Langstielige Seescheide, Monterey Seescheide
Styela multitentaculata
Styela nordenskjoldi
Styela oblonga
Styela ordinaria
Styela paessleri
Styela pfefferi
Styela plicata
Seescheide
Styela polypes
Styela psoliformis
Styela rustica
Styela schmitti
Styela sericata
Styela serpentina
Styela similis
Styela squamosa
Styela suluensis
Styela talpina
Styela tenuibranchia
Styela theeli
Styela tholiformis
Styela tokiokai
Styela truncata
Styela wandeli
Styela yakutatensis

More related species in this lexicon:

Styela sp.
Seescheide

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-12-10 13:54:03
Last edit:: 2016-12-10 14:01:50

Info

Styela montereyensis (Dall, 1872)

Styela montereyensis is a long stalked tunicate,yellow to dark red brown in colour.It is a solitary tunicate, growing often in loose groups.Tunicates are suspensions feeders that use their siphons to tilter food particle from the water column.

Synonyme:
Clavellinopsis rubra
Cynthia montereyensis
Styela rubra
Tethyum montereyense
Tethyum montereyensis

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > rStolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Styela (Genus) > Styela montereyensis (Species)

Scientific paper

The Uptake of Vanadium(V) and Other Metals by the Isolated Branchial Sacs of the Ascidians Ascidia ceratodes, Ciona intestinalis, and Styela montereyensis, Marcos A Cheney; John R Berg; James H Swinehart, 1997
Orientation and Current-Induced Flow in the Stalked Ascidian Styela montereyensis, Craig M. Young and Lee F. Braithwaite, 1980

External links

Encyclodedia of Life (EOL) (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Stalked Tunicate (Styela montereyensis)& Fluted Bryozoan(Hippodiplosia insculpta),San Nicolas Island, August 20-21, 2005

Styela montereyensis, Monterey stalked tunicate, Pillar Point 2016

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