WoRMS taxon details
Megalocercus huxleyi (Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905)
221117 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221117)
accepted
Species
Megalocercus megastoma Aida, 1907 · unaccepted
Oikopleura huxleyi Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Oikopleura megastoma Aida, 1907 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Oikopleura huxleyi Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905) Ritter, W.E.; Byxbee, E.S. 1905. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific in the Albatross. VIII. The pelagic Tunicata. Memoirs of the Museum for Comparative Zoology Harvard 26 (5): 195-214., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31814 [details]
Garic, R. (2025). World List of Appendicularia. Megalocercus huxleyi (Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221117 on 2025-06-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Oikopleura megastoma Aida, 1907) Aida, T. (1907). Appendicularia of Japanese Waters. <em>The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan.</em> 23: 5 (1-25)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7078927#page/111/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Oikopleura huxleyi Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905) Ritter, W.E.; Byxbee, E.S. 1905. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific in the Albatross. VIII. The pelagic Tunicata. Memoirs of the Museum for Comparative Zoology Harvard 26 (5): 195-214., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31814 [details]
basis of record Fenaux, R. (1973). Appendicularians from the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. p. 409-414 in: Zeitchel, B. & S.A. Gerlach (eds), The biology of the Indian Ocean. Ecological Studies Vol. 3. Jacobs, J., O.L. Lange, J.S. Olson & W. Wieser (eds) Chapman & Hall Ltd. [details]
original description (of Oikopleura huxleyi Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905) Ritter, W.E.; Byxbee, E.S. 1905. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific in the Albatross. VIII. The pelagic Tunicata. Memoirs of the Museum for Comparative Zoology Harvard 26 (5): 195-214., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31814 [details]
basis of record Fenaux, R. (1973). Appendicularians from the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. p. 409-414 in: Zeitchel, B. & S.A. Gerlach (eds), The biology of the Indian Ocean. Ecological Studies Vol. 3. Jacobs, J., O.L. Lange, J.S. Olson & W. Wieser (eds) Chapman & Hall Ltd. [details]
Other
additional source
Fenaux, R., Q. Bone, and D. Deibel. 1998. Appendicularian distribution and zoogeography, p. 251-264. In q. Bone [ed.], The biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford University Press. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | オオオタマボヤ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Oikopleura megastoma Aida, 1907)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Megalocercus huxleyi)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Megalocercus huxleyi)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
