MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Rhopalaea Philippi, 1843

ERMS taxon details

Rhopalaea Philippi, 1843

AphiaID

103491 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103491)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Diazonidae Seeliger, 1906

Direct children (3)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Species Rhopalaea hartmeyeri (Salfi, 1927)
Species Rhopalaea neapolitana Philippi, 1843
Species Rhopalaea orientalis (Pérès, 1958)

Environment

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

Original description

Philippi, A. (1843). Rhopalaea ein neues Genus der einfachen Ascidien. Arch.Anat. Phys. 45-47. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Rhopalaea Philippi, 1843. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=103491 on 2026-05-24

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Rhopalaea Philippi, 1843. Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103491 on 2026-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Monniot, Claude

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2007-12-02 20:16:11Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2007-12-05 10:29:40Z

checked

Sanamyan, Karen

Licensing

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

[taxonomic tree]

[clear cache]

original description Philippi, A. (1843). Rhopalaea ein neues Genus der einfachen Ascidien. Arch.Anat. Phys. 45-47. [details]

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. (look up in RoR) [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in RoR) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

[show lower level...]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhopalaea)
To Genbank
To ITIS

Unreviewed

Rhopalaea sp