Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Phlebobranchia > Family Ascidiidae > Genus Ascidia

Ascidia callosa Stimpson, 1852

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ascidia*	Linnaeus, 1767	accepted genus name
*Ascidea*	Linnaeus, 1767	orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Swedish: valksjöpung

Literature

original description	Stimpson, W. (1852). Several new ascidians from the coast of the United States. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 228-232.
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	Van Name, W. G. (1945). The North and South American ascidians. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 84: 1-476.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. Wiley-Interscience, Boston. 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only].
additional source	Sanamyan, K.; Sanamyan, N. (2017). Shallow-water Ascidians from Matua Island (central Kuril Islands, NW Pacific). Zootaxa. 4232(3): 301-321.
additional source	Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S. 24119: 366 PP.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Miner, R. W. (1950). Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. 1-888.
additional source	Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.
additional source	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
additional source	Lambert, G.; Sanamyan, K. (2001). Distaplia alaskensis sp. nov. (Ascidiacea, Aplousobranchia) and other new ascidian records from South-central Alaska, with a redescription of Ascidia columbiana. Huntsman, 1912)., Canadian Journal of Zoology. 79, 1766-1781.

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Citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Ascidia callosa Stimpson, 1852. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103700