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Ascidiella aspersa

Ascidiella aspersa

Ascidiella(+14)·(Müller, 1776)

GBIF:299317809

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Habitat

Marine

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GEOGRAPHY

Distribution Map

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(55)

Ireland
introduced
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
Angolan part of the South Atlantic Ocean
introduced
New Zealand part of the South Pacific Ocean
introduced
Saldanha Bay
introduced
Oostduinkerke
Canadian part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean
introduced
Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean
introduced
European waters (ERMS scope)
Gulf of Maine
United Kingdom part of the English Channel
native
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
South African part of the Indian Ocean
introduced
Great Australian Bight
introduced
Knysna
introduced
Grevelingen
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
United States part of the North Pacific Ocean
introduced
Greek part of the Aegean Sea
introduced
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone
Irish Exclusive economic Zone
North West Atlantic
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone
introduced
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
Canadian part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
Australian part of the Bass Strait
introduced
Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean
introduced
Spanish part of the Balearic Sea
introduced
Adriatic Sea
introduced
Bay of Bengal
introduced
Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
introduced
North East Atlantic
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone
West Coast of Norway
Table Bay
introduced
North Sea
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
North Atlantic
introduced
Joes Point
Canadian part of the North Atlantic Ocean
introduced
Spuikom
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone
introduced
Wimereux
Australian part of the Great Australian Bight
introduced
Australian part of the Bass Strait
introduced
South African part of the South Atlantic Ocean
introduced
Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean
introduced
New Zealand part of the South Pacific Ocean
introduced
British Isles
Alboran Sea
introduced
Laccadive Sea
introduced
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone

DATA

Occurrence Datasets

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 10 languages.

itaAscidiellaitaengDirty Sea SquirtengengEuropean ascidianengdanFinkedandeuSpritz-Ascidiedeu+10 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 10 languages.

itaAscidiella
ita
engDirty Sea Squirt
eng
engEuropean ascidian
eng
danFinke
dan
deuSpritz-Ascidie
deu
deuSpritz-Seescheide
deu
danVortet søpung
dan
fraascidie sale
fra
engdirty sea-squirt
eng
nldruwe zakpijp
nld
nnovortesekkdyr
nno
nobvortesekkdyr
nob
nldvuilwitte zakpijp
nld
swevårtsjöpung
swe
jpnヨーロッパザラボヤ
jpn

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299317809
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
5200467
Taxon ID
H63Z
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026