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Molgula manhattensis Sea grapes

Molgula manhattensisis commonly referred to as Sea grapes. Difficulty in the aquarium: Experts only! Very hard to keep. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
6129 
AphiaID:
103788 
Scientific:
Molgula manhattensis 
German:
Meertraube, Blaugrüne Seescheide 
English:
Sea Grapes 
Category:
Sea Squirts 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Molgulidae (Family) > Molgula (Genus) > manhattensis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(De Kay, ), 1843 
Occurrence:
the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Arctic (North Polar Sea), Argentina, Australia, Canada , European Coasts, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, Indo Pacific, Japan, North Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean Sea, USA, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
0 - 90 Meter 
Size:
0.39" - 1.97" (1cm - 5cm) 
Temperature:
8,4 °F - 24,3 °F (8,4°C - 24,3°C) 
Food:
Detritus, Filter feeder, Plankton, Suspension feeder 
Difficulty:
Experts only! Very hard to keep 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Molgula amesophleba
  • Molgula antiborealis
  • Molgula appendiculata
  • Molgula arenata
  • Molgula bacca
  • Molgula bisinus
  • Molgula bleizi
  • Molgula bourbonis
  • Molgula calvata
  • Molgula caminae
 
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Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2020-04-01 19:37:15 

Info

(DeKay, 1843)

Molgula manhattensis is a highly invasive species and host of the copepods Notodelphys canui Roland, 1963, Lichomolgus canui Sars G.O., 1917
Doropygus laticornis Wilson C.B., 1932.

Synonyms:

Ascidea manhattensis De Kay, 1843
Ascidia amphora Agassiz, 1850
Ascidia ampulloides Beneden, 1846
Ascidia manhattensis (De Kay, 1843)
Ascidia tubifera Örstedt, 1844
Caesira ampulloides (Beneden, 1846)
Caesira manhattensis (De Kay, 1843)
Caesira sordida (Stimpson, 1852)
Gymnocystis ampulloides (Beneden, 1846)
Gymnocystis manhattensis (De Kay, 1843)
Molgula ampulloides (Beneden, 1846)
Molgula caepiformis Herdman & Sorby, 1882
Molgula dentifera Damas, 1904
Molgula lutkeniana Traustedt, 1893
Molgula sordida Stimpson, 1852

Scientific paper

  1. Streptomyces hyaluromycini sp. nov., isolated from a tunicate (Molgula manhattensis), Harunari, Enjuro; Hamada, Moriyuki; Shibata, Chiyo; Tamura, Tomohiko; Komaki, Hisayuki; Imada, Chiaki; Igarashi, Yasuhiro , 2015
  2. Novel 3,4-Di- and 3,4,5-Trihydroxyphenylalanine-Containing Polypeptides from the Blood Cells of the AscidiansAscidia ceratodesandMolgula manhattensis, Steven W. Taylor; Mark M. Ross; J.Herbert Waite, 1995
  3. Synthesis of tunichromes mm-l and mm-2, blood pigments of the iron.Assimilating tunicate, molgula manhattensis, Dooseop Kim; Yunyi Li; Benjamin A. Horenstein; Koji Nskanishi, 1990
  4. Acrosome differentiation inMolgula manhattensis (Ascidiacea, Tunicata), Makoto Fukumoto, 1985
  5. The histology, ultrastructure, and functional morphology of the male reproductive system of Molgula manhattensis, Irons, Katherine Prescott; Walker, Charles Wayne , 1984
  6. Iron Accumulation in Tunicate Blood Cells. I. Distribution and Oxidation State of Iron in the Blood of Boltenia ovifera, Styela clava, and Molgula manhattensis, Maria I. Agudelo, Kenneth Kustin, Guy C. McLeod, William E. Robinson and Robert T. Wang, 1983
  7. Modes of Infection of the Ascidian Molgula manhattensis by Its Endosymbiont Nephromyces Giard, Mary Beth Saffo and Wendy L. Davis, 1982
  8. Iodine metabolism in the ascidian, Molgula manhattensis, Ann D. Dunn, 1975
  9. DNA studies of a Chesapeake Bay population of the tunicateMolgula manhattensis(DeKay) (Ascidiacea), Elizabeth A. Crawford and Paul J. Homsher, 1975
  10. Biomass characterstics of the ascidianMolgula manhattensis(DeKay), D. Heyward Hamilton, Jr. and Jean Yurchyk, 1973
  11. Cellular Responses to Foreign Bodies in the Tunicate Molgula manhattensis (DeKay), Robert S. Anderson, 1971
  12. Biosynthesis of uric acid in the tunicate, Molgula manhattensis, with a general scheme for the function of stored purines in animals, James R Nolfi, 1970
  13. Light-Induction of Shedding of Gametes in Ciona intestinalis and Molgula manhattensis, D. G. Whittingham, 1967
  14. A Protozoan Parasite of Molgula manhattensis (De Kay) (Urochordata), BURREN, COLIN H., 1966
  15. An electron microscope study on the oocyte, test cells and follicular envelope of the tunicate, Molgula manhattensis, Richard G. Kessel; Norman E. Kemp, 1962
  16. X-Ray Experiments with Molgula manhattensis: Adult Sensitivity and Induced Zygotic Lethality, Daniel S. Grosch and Zoe H. Smith, 1957
  17. Enzymatic Liberation of Inorganic Phosphate from Adenosinetriphosphate by Tissues of Molgula manhattensis., Herrmann, H.; Hartman, W. , 1948
  18. Cross- and Self-Fertilization in the Ascidian Molgula manhattensis, T. H. Morgan, 1942

External links

  1. Delivering Alien Invasive Species In Europe (DAISIE) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Gelatinous zooplankton fauna (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) from Baía da Babitonga (southern Brazil) (en). Abgerufen am 09.10.2023.
  4. Homepage Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  6. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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