Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Polyandrocarpa anguinea
Tunicado, Tunicate
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Ascidiacea
Order
Stolidobranchia
Family
Styelidae
Genus
Polyandrocarpa
Species
anguinea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Gynandrocarpa maxima Sluiter, 1904, Pandocia anguinea (Sluiter, 1898), Polyandrocarpa maxima (Sluiter, 1904), Polyandrocarpa nivosa Sluiter, 1898, Polyandrocarpa sagamiensis Tokioka, 1953, Polycarpa anguinea (Sluiter, 1898), Polycarpa nivosa (Sluiter, 1898), Styela anguinea Sluiter, 1898, Styela nivosa Sluiter, 1898 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Lambert, G. (2019) Fouling ascidians (Chordata: Ascidiacea) of the Galápagos: Santa Cruz and Baltra Islands Aquatic Invasion, Volume 14, Issue 1: 132–149
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"Galapagos Species Database, Polyandrocarpa anguinea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19914. Accessed 4 November 2026.