Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Stolidobranchia > Family Molgulidae > Genus Molgula

Molgula griffithsii (MacLeay, 1825)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cystingia MacLeay, 1825

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

MolgulaForbes, 1848accepted genus name
Anurella Lacaze-Duthiers, 1877 synonym
Caesira Fleming, 1822 synonym
Ctenicella Lacaze-Duthiers, 1877 synonym
Cystingia MacLeay, 1825 synonym

Species group names

Molgula griffithsi (MacLeay, 1825) orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: sea grapes sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 Russian: Прозрачная мольгула

Literature

basis of record

Van Name, W. G. (1945). The North and South American ascidians. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 84: 1-476.

additional source

van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

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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. Molgula griffithsii (MacLeay, 1825). 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:250885

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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Last modified

2010-06-25 by Arjan Gittenberger

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