Ascidiella aspersa
Authors/Creators
- 1. * & Marine Services, Harbour Authority Building, Scapa, Orkney, KW 15 1 SD, United Kingdom
- 2. APEM Ltd., Diamond Centre, Works Road, Letchworth Garden City, SG 6 1 LW, United Kingdom
Description
(23) Ascidiella aspersa (Müller, 1776)
Status in U.K. – cryptogenic.
Ascidiella aspersa (“fluted sea squirt”) has been recorded from many monitoring programme sites, each year since 2012, from scrape, settlement panel and rapid assessment samples. It has also been recorded from renewable energy structures in Orkney (Want et al. 2017).
This species has been listed as “introduced” in the Mediterranean (López-Legentil and Legentil 2015) and is considered invasive in Japan and elsewhere (Nishikawa et al. 2014). Its type locality is southern Norway (Skagerrak) and it is widely considered to be native to northern Europe: however, it should be regarded as cryptogenic in the U.K. until its native range can be confirmed.
NMS voucher reference number: NMS.Z.2017.144.117.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Phlebobranchia
- Family
- Ascidiidae
- Genus
- Ascidiella
- Species
- aspersa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ascidiella aspersa (Muller, 1776) sec. Kakkonen, Worsfold, Ashelby, Taylor & Beaton, 2019
References
- Want A, Crawford R, Kakkonen J, Kiddie G, Miller S, Harris RE, Porter JS (2017) Biodiversity characterisation and hydrodynamic consequences of marine fouling communities on marine renewable energy infrastructure in the Orkney Islands Archipelago, Scotland, UK. Biofouling 33: 567 - 579, http: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 08927014.2017.1336229
- Lopez-Legentil S, Legentil M (2015) Harbor networks as introduction gateways: contrasting distribution patterns of native and introduced ascidians. Biological Invasions 17: 1623 - 1638, https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10530 - 014 - 0821 - z
- Nishikawa T, Oohara I, Saitoh K, Shigenobu Y, Hasegawa N, Kanamori M, Baba K, Turon X, Bishop JDD (2014) Molecular and morphological discrimination between an invasive ascidian Ascidiella aspersa and its congener A. scabra (Urochordata: Ascidiacea). Zoological Science 31: 180 - 185, https: // doi. org / 10.2108 / zsj. 31.180