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Pale Herdmania

Herdmania pallida (Heller, 1878)

Status not recordedother invertebrates

The pale herdmania (Herdmania pallida) is a species in the family Pyuridae, order Stolidobranchia.

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Quick facts about the pale herdmania

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the pale herdmania live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pale herdmania as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Brazil

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the pale herdmania endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the pale herdmania classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAscidiacea
  4. orderStolidobranchia
  5. familyPyuridae
  6. genusHerdmania
  7. SpeciesHerdmania pallida (Heller, 1878)

Synonyms Cynthia pallida, Cynthia rosea, Halocynthia pallida, Pyura ceylonica, Pyura momus f. pallida, Pyura pallida, Rhabdocynthia ceylonica, Rhabdocynthia pallida

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • Herdmania pâleFrench
  • ベニボヤモドキJapanese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the pale herdmania

Other species in the same genus Herdmania.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the pale herdmania an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pale herdmania as introduced in 1 country: Brazil, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the pale herdmania?

The pale herdmania (Herdmania pallida) belongs to the family Pyuridae in the order Stolidobranchia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Pale Herdmania (Herdmania pallida). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pale-herdmania

MLA

“Pale Herdmania (Herdmania pallida).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pale-herdmania.

BibTeX
@misc{pale_herdmania_2026,
  title = {Pale Herdmania (Herdmania pallida)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pale-herdmania},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}