Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Aplidium solidum Herdman, 1891

tunicado, Tunicate

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Ascidiacea

Order
Aplousobranchia

Family
Polyclinidae

Genus
Aplidium

Species
solidum

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Cryptogenic

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Hickman, C.P. Jr. Chiriboga, A., Ober, W.C. (2005) A field guide to corals of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 54 pp.
  • 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.
  • Keith, I. Dawson, P. (2016) Marine invasive species: establishing pathways, their presence and potential threats in the Galapagos Marine Reserve Pacific Conservation Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PC15020
  • 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, Aplidium solidum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7864. Accessed 1 November 2026.