Sycozoa gaimardi Sea squirts

Sycozoa gaimardi is commonly referred to as Sea squirts. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Sycozoa gaimardi

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Scientific:: Sycozoa gaimardi
German:: Seescheide
English:: Sea Squirts

Category:: Ascidies

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Aplousobranchia (Order) > Holozoidae (Family) > Sycozoa (Genus) > gaimardi (Species)
Initial determination:: (Herdman, ), 1886

Occurrence:: Antarctica, Argentina, Chile, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Kerguelen Islands, South America, South Atlantic, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetlands Island , South-Pazific, the Falkland Islands, West-Atlantic Ocean
Sea depth:: 0 - 500 Meter
Size:: up to 1.97" (5 cm)
Temperature:: -0,3 °F - -1,1 °F (-0,3°C - -1,1°C)
Food:: Rotifers (Rotifera), Copepods, Food specialist, Food strudler, Invertebrates, Marine snow, Mucus, Phytoplankton, Protozoa, Radiolarian, Suspension feeder
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Sycozoa anomala
Sycozoa arborenscens
Sycozoa brevicauda
Sycozoa cavernosa
Sycozoa cerebriformis
Hirn-Seescheide
Sycozoa gaimardi
Seescheide
Sycozoa kanzasi
Sycozoa melopepona
Sycozoa mirabilis
Sycozoa murrayi
Sycozoa pedunculata
Sycozoa pulchra
Sycozoa seiziwadai
Sycozoa sigillinoides
Sycozoa umbellata

More related species in this lexicon:

Sycozoa arborescens
Koloniale Fächer Seescheide

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2017-05-11 09:56:11
Last edit:: 2020-04-07 11:34:18

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Sycozoa gaimardi (Herdman, 1886)

Ascidiacea (commonly known as the ascidians or sea squirts) is a paraphyletic class in the subphylum Tunicata of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. Ascidians are characterized by a tough outer "tunic" made of the polysaccharide cellulose.

Synonymised names:
Colella gaimardi Herdman, 1886 (original combination)
Colella racovitzai Beneden & Selys-Longchamps, 1913 (original combination)

Classification:
Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Tunicata > Ascidiacea > Aplousobranchia > Holozoidae > Sycozoa > Sycozoa gaimardi

External links

Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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