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Styela canopus Rough sea tunicate

Styela canopusis commonly referred to as Rough sea tunicate. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
6116 
AphiaID:
103926 
Scientific:
Styela canopus 
German:
Einsiedler-Seescheide 
English:
Rough Sea Tunicate 
Category:
Sea Squirts 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Styela (Genus) > canopus (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Savigny, ), 1816 
Occurrence:
cosmopolitan species 
Size:
up to 0.98" (2.5 cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Fish eggs, Plankton, Suspension feeder 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
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
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2013-09-29 19:25:41 

Info

(Savigny, 1816)

The Rough sea tunicate is a invasive species and therefore a cosmopolit.

The tunicate is the host of the copepode Doropygopsis novemsetiferus (Schellenberg, 1922).

Synonyms:
Ascidia rugosa Agassiz, 1850
Cynthia canopoides (Heller, 1877)
Cynthia canopus Savigny, 1816
Cynthia partita Stimpson, 1852
Cynthia stellifera Verrill, 1871
Halocynthia partita (Stimpson, 1852)
Styela barbaris Kott, 1952
Styela bermudensis Van Name, 1902
Styela bicolor (Sluiter, 1887)
Styela canopoides Heller, 1877
Styela marquesana Michaelsen, 1918
Styela orbicularis Sluiter, 1904
Styela partita (Stimpson, 1852)
Styela partito (Stimpson, 1852) (
Styela pupa Heller, 1878
Styela rectangularis Kott, 1952
Styela stephensoni Michaelsen, 1934 Styela variabilis Hancock, 1868
Tethyum canopus (Savigny, 1816)
Tethyum orbiculare (Sluiter, 1904)
Tethyum partitum (Stimpson, 1852)
Tethyum pupa (Heller, 1878)

Scientific paper

  1. The influence of temperature and light on larval pre-settlement metamorphosis: a study of the effects of environmental factors on pre-settlement metamorphosis of the solitary ascidian Styela canopus, Feng, Danqing; Ke, Caihuan; Lu, Changyi; Li, Shaojing , 2010
  2. Cellular components and tunic architecture of the solitary ascidian Styela canopus (Stolidobranchiata, Styelidae), Maria Antonietta Di Bella; Georgia Cassarà; Domenica Russo; Giacomo De Leo, 1998

External links

  1. Homepage Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Marine Invaders of the NE Pacific (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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