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

Molgula occulta Kupffer, 1875

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: skaldækket søpung sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: pyntesekkdyr sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: pyntesekkdyr sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: maskeringssjöpung

Literature

original description	Kupffer, C. W. (1875). Tunicata. Jahresber. Komm. Wiss. Untersuchung deutschen Meere in Kiel, Berlin. 2: 197-228.
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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Monniot, C. (1969). Les Molgulidae des mers européennes. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. 40(4): 172-272.

Genbank

Citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Molgula occulta Kupffer, 1875. 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:103791