Aplidium solidum — The Life Data

Animalia/Chordata/Ascidiacea/Aplousobranchia/Polyclinidae/Aplidium

At a glance

Occurrence records599

Data sources8

Biological traits6

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Aplidium solidum's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility324 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System275 records↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources6 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS57 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS599 records

01Narrative

Aplidium solidum is a species of colonial sea squirts, a tunicate in the family Polyclinidae. It is commonly known as the red ascidian or sea pork.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology1

Body length0.3 cm

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonesessile

Other traits3

Depth max16 m

Depth min7 m

Vulnerability10

03Chemical composition57 compounds

Compounds documented for Aplidium solidum across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Isoquinoline alkaloids21

Flavanones4

Amarylidaceae alkaloids2

Isoquinoline alkaloids $ Tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids2

Flavonols2

Documented compounds57 total

Compound	Amount	Source
(-)-7-Hydroxyflavanone	present	NPASS
(-)-Argemonine	present	NPASS
(-)-Isoboldine	present	NPASS
(-)-N-methylcaryachine	present	NPASS
(-)-Pinostrobin	present	NPASS
(1'S,2R,4R)-10,11-dimethoxy-5-methylspiro[5-azatricyclo[6.3.1.04,12]dodeca-1(12),8,10-triene-2,6'-cyclohex-2-ene]-1'-ol	present	NPASS
(1'S,2S,4R)-10,11-dimethoxy-5-methylspiro[5-azatricyclo[6.3.1.04,12]dodeca-1(12),8,10-triene-2,4'-cyclohex-2-ene]-1'-ol	present	NPASS
(1'S,2S,4R)-10-methoxy-5-methylspiro[5-azatricyclo[6.3.1.04,12]dodeca-1(12),8,10-triene-2,4'-cyclohex-2-ene]-1',11-diol	present	NPASS
(1R,12R)-15-methoxy-20-methyl-5,7-dioxa-20-azapentacyclo[10.7.1.02,10.04,8.013,18]icosa-2,4(8),9,13,15,17-hexaen-16-ol	present	NPASS
(1R,12R,20S)-15,16-dimethoxy-20-methyl-20-oxido-5,7-dioxa-20-azoniapentacyclo[10.7.1.02,10.04,8.013,18]icosa-2,4(8),9,13,15,17-hexaene	present	NPASS

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type599 records

Wild obs. + sensor401

Museum / vouchered185

Other13

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO608 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit27

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 4.1 m · max 152 m · 27 records with depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy85% within 1 km

≤100 m 12≤1 km 10≤10 km 4

26 georeferenced · 375 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor401

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy68% within 1 km

≤100 m 27≤1 km 42≤10 km 24>10 km 9

102 georeferenced · 83 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence185

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions4 of 11 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
CASlocation not on record	31
Natick, US	27
Victoria, CA	13
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	13
Sydney, AU	11
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	6
Museums Victorialocation not on record	2
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxicolocation not on record	1
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record	1
Washington, US	1
Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record	1

11 institutions · 107 of 185 vouchered records shown