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Aplidium flavolineatum Rosette sea squirt

Aplidium flavolineatumis commonly referred to as Rosette sea squirt. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!.


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Aplidium flavolineatum (Rosette sea squirt),Port Elizabeth, Copyright Johan Swanepoel


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lexID:
9352 
AphiaID:
249858 
Scientific:
Aplidium flavolineatum 
German:
Seescheide 
English:
Rosette Sea Squirt 
Category:
Sea Squirts 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Aplousobranchia (Order) > Polyclinidae (Family) > Aplidium (Genus) > flavolineatum (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Sluiter, ), 1898 
Occurrence:
South-Africa 
Size:
0.39" - 0.59" (1cm - 1.5cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 62.6 °F (°C - 17°C) 
Food:
Filter feeder 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Aplidium abditum
  • Aplidium abyssum
  • Aplidium acropodium
  • Aplidium acroporum
  • Aplidium aegeaensis
  • Aplidium albicans
  • Aplidium altarium
  • Aplidium amorphatum
  • Aplidium annulatum
  • Aplidium antillense
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2016-02-21 14:10:43 

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Aplidium flavolineatum (Sluiter, 1898)

Aplidium flavolineatum is a colonial-like acidian.The colony is 35 cm wide, the Zooids are a cm long.Aplidium flavolineatu often confused with sponges.The colour is crem, pink or red.

The Rosette sea squirt can be found in shaloow rocky reefs to 1-18 m dephts.This Southern Africa sea squirt is a filterfeeder.

Synonyme:
Amaroucium astraeoides
Amaroucium flavolineatum
Amaroucium simplex
Aplidium flavo-lineatum

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Aplousobranchia (Order) > Polyclinidae (Family) > Aplidium (Genus) > Aplidium flavolineatum (Species)

External links

  1. Eastern Cape Scuba Diving (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Aplidium flavolineatum (Rosette sea squirt),Port Elizabeth,  Copyright Johan Swanepoel
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Aplidium flavolineatum (Rosette sea squirt),Port Elizabeth,  Copyright Johan Swanepoel
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Aplidium flavolineatum (Rosette sea squirt),Port Elizabeth,  Copyright Johan Swanepoel
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