MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Molgula griffithsii (MacLeay, 1825)

WoRMS taxon details

Molgula griffithsii (MacLeay, 1825)

AphiaID

250885 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250885)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Molgula Forbes, 1848

Original name

Cystingia griffithsii MacLeay, 1825

Synonymised names

Caesira crystallina (Moeller, 1842) · unaccepted (literature misspelling)

Caesira intumescens Van Name, 1912 · unaccepted (original combination)

Clavelina chrystallina Moeller, 1842 · unaccepted (original combination)

Clavelina crystallina Moeller, 1842 · unaccepted (literature misspelling)

Cynthia chrystallina (Moeller, 1842) · unaccepted (new combination)

Cynthia crystallina (Moeller, 1842) · unaccepted (literature misspelling)

Cystingia griffithsi MacLeay, 1825 · unaccepted (synonym; misspelling)

Cystingia griffithsii MacLeay, 1825 · unaccepted (original combination)

Molgula chrystallina (Moeller, 1842) · unaccepted (new combination)

Molgula crystallina (Moeller, 1842) · unaccepted (literature misspelling)

Molgula griffithsi (MacLeay, 1825) · unaccepted (literature misspelling)

Molgula pellucida (Stimpson, 1852) · unaccepted (new combination)

Pera crystallina (Moeller, 1842) · unaccepted (literature misspelling)

Pera pellucida Stimpson, 1852 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Cystingia griffithsii MacLeay, 1825) MacLeay, W. S. (1825). Anatomical observations on the natural group of the Tunicata, with the description of three species collected in Fox Channel. Trans. Linnean Soc. London. 14: 527-555. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras

Distribution Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2024). Ascidiacea World Database. Molgula griffithsii (MacLeay, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=250885 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-12-05 12:32:01Z

created

Sanamyan, Karen

2010-06-25 20:58:01Z

changed

Gittenberger, Arjan

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Caesira intumescens Van Name, 1912) Van Name, W. G. (1912). Simple ascidians of the coasts of New England and neighboring British provinces. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 34: 439-619. [details]

original description (of Cystingia griffithsii MacLeay, 1825) MacLeay, W. S. (1825). Anatomical observations on the natural group of the Tunicata, with the description of three species collected in Fox Channel. Trans. Linnean Soc. London. 14: 527-555. [details]

original description (of Clavelina chrystallina Moeller, 1842) Moeller, H. P. C. (1842). Index molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturh. Tidsskr. 4: 76-97. [details]

original description (of Pera pellucida Stimpson, 1852) Stimpson, W. (1852). Several new ascidians from the coast of the United States. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 228-232. [details]

basis of record Van Name, W. G. (1945). The North and South American ascidians. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 84: 1-476., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1186 [details]

additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]