Styela canopus Divided Tunicate, Rough Sea Squirt, Rough Tunicate

Styela canopus is commonly referred to as Divided Tunicate, Rough Sea Squirt, Rough Tunicate. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

6116 

AphiaID:

103926 

Scientific:

Styela canopus 

German:

Raue Seescheide 

English:

Divided Tunicate, Rough Sea Squirt, Rough Tunicate 

Category:

Osłonice 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Styelidae (Family) > Styela (Genus) > canopus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Savigny, ), 1816 

Occurrence:

Hong Kong, Ghana, Tunesien, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Angola, Australia, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, California, China, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), cosmopolitan species, Cuba, Egypt, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Guam, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Ionian Sea (Mediterranean), Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Madeira, Marquesas Islands, Martinique, Mozambique, New Zealand, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific (Ocean), Okinawa, Palau, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Atlantic, South-Africa, Tahiti, Taiwan, Thailand, the British Isles, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, USA 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

1 - 180 Meter 

Habitats:

Coral reefs, Mangrove Zones, Port facilities, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

0.79" - 1.18" (2,5cm - 3,0cm) 

Temperature:

11,8 °F - 28,9 °F (11,8°C - 28,9°C) 

Food:

Filter feeder, Phytoplankton, Suspension feeder 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Styela angularis
• Styela aomori
• Styela atlantica
• Styela barnharti
• Styela bathybia
• Styela bicolor
• Styela brevigaster
• Styela calva
• 
  Styela canopus
  Raue Seescheide
• Styela chaini
• Styela changa
• Styela charcoti
• Styela clara
• 
  Styela clava
  Ostasiatische Seescheide, Falten-Ascidie
• Styela clavata
• Styela coriacea
• Styela crinita
• Styela gagetyleri
• Styela gelatinosa
• Styela gibbsii
• Styela glans
• Styela grahami
• Styela hadalis
• Styela kottae
• Styela loculosa
• Styela longiducta
• Styela magalhaensis
• Styela mallei
• Styela materna
• Styela meteoris
• Styela milleri
• 
  Styela montereyensis
  Langstielige Seescheide, Monterey Seescheide
• Styela multitentaculata
• Styela nordenskjoldi
• Styela oblonga
• Styela ordinaria
• Styela paessleri
• Styela pfefferi
• 
  Styela plicata
  Seescheide
• Styela polypes
• Styela psoliformis
• Styela rustica
• Styela schmitti
• Styela sericata
• Styela serpentina
• Styela similis
• Styela squamosa
• Styela suluensis
• Styela talpina
• Styela tenuibranchia
• Styela theeli
• Styela tholiformis
• Styela tokiokai
• Styela truncata
• Styela wandeli
• Styela yakutatensis
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Styela sp.
  Seescheide

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2013-09-29 19:25:41 

Last edit:

2025-09-12 19:57:02 

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