Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Stolidobranchia > Family Pyuridae > Genus Halocynthia

Halocynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

HalocynthiaVerrill, 1879accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Bokmål (Norwegian): pæresjøpung sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English: sea peach sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 Norwegian: pæresjøpung sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: pæresjøpung sources: i Müller Zool. Dan 4: 31
 Norwegian Nynorsk: pæresjøpung sources: i Müller Zool. Dan 4: 31
 Nynorsk (Norwegian): pæresjøpung

Literature

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

Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p.

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

Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p.

additional source

Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.

additional source

ITIS database

additional source

Logan, A. 1998. A sublittoral hard substrate epibenthic community below 30 m in Head Harbour Passage, New Brunswick, Canada. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 27: 445-459.

additional source

Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p.

additional source

Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p.

additional source

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

additional source

UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Chordata Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
GenBank (7 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Sanamyan, K. (2014). Halocynthia pyriformis (Rathke, 1806). In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2014) Ascidiacea World Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103828

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2007-12-05 by Karen Sanamyan

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