Clavelina

Summary

Clavelina ("little bottle") is genus of sea squirts (the Ascidiacea), containing the following species:[2]

Clavelina
Clavelina picta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Tunicata
Class: Ascidiacea
Order: Aplousobranchia
Family: Clavelinidae
Genus: Clavelina
Savigny, 1816[1]
  • Clavelina amplexa Kott, 2002
  • Clavelina arafurensis Tokioka, 1952
  • Clavelina auracea Monniot, 1997
  • Clavelina australis (Herdman, 1899)
  • Clavelina baudinensis Kott, 1957
  • Clavelina borealis Savigny, 1816
  • Clavelina brasiliensis (Millar, 1977)
  • Clavelina breve Monniot, 1997
  • Clavelina coerulea Oka, 1934
  • Clavelina concrescens Hartmeyer, 1924
  • Clavelina cyclus Tokioka & Nishikawa, 1975
  • Clavelina cylindrica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • Clavelina dagysa (Kott, 1957)
  • Clavelina dellavallei (Zirpolo, 1825)
  • Clavelina detorta (Sluiter, 1904)
  • Clavelina elegans (Oka, 1927)
  • Clavelina enormis Herdman, 1880
  • Clavelina fasciculata Van Name, 1945
  • Clavelina fecunda (Sluiter, 1904)
  • Clavelina gemmae Turon, 2005
  • Clavelina huntsmani Van Name, 1931
  • Clavelina kottae (Millar, 1960)
  • Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776)
  • Clavelina maculata Monniot & Monniot, 2001
  • Clavelina meridionalis (Herdman, 1891)
  • Clavelina michaelseni Millar, 1982
  • Clavelina miniata Watanabe & Tokioka, 1973
  • Clavelina minuta Tokioka, 1962
  • Clavelina mirabilis Kott, 1972
  • Clavelina moluccensis (Sluiter, 1904)
  • Clavelina neapolitana Della Valle, 1881
  • Clavelina nigra Kott, 1990
  • Clavelina obesa Nishikawa & Tokioka, 1976
  • Clavelina oblonga Herdman, 1880
  • Clavelina oliva Kott, 1990
  • Clavelina ossipandae Hasegawa & Kahijira, 2024
  • Clavelina ostrearium (Michaelsen, 1930)
  • Clavelina phlegraea Salfi, 1929
  • Clavelina picta (Verrill, 1900)
  • Clavelina polycitorella (Tokioka, 1954)
  • Clavelina pseudobaudinensis (Kott, 1976)
  • Clavelina puertosecensis Millar & Goodbody, 1974
  • Clavelina robusta Kott, 1990
  • Clavelina roseola Millar, 1955
  • Clavelina sabbadini Brunetti, 1987
  • Clavelina simplex Kott, 2006
  • Clavelina steenbrasensis Millar, 1955
  • Clavelina viola Tokioka & Nishikawa, 1976

Phylogeny edit

 
Cladogram of Clavelina and related genera.

A 2024 study of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene sequences found that Clavelina was paraphyletic to the genus Nephtheis.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Savigny, 1816. Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, &c. Paris, 1816
  2. ^ Karen Sanamyan & Claude Monniot (2011). Noa Shenkar; Arjan Gittenberger; Gretchen Lambert; Marc Rius; Rosana Moreira Da Rocha & Billie J. Swalla (eds.). "Clavelina". Ascidiacea World Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  3. ^ Hasegawa, Naohiro; Kajihara, Hiroshi (2024). "Graveyards of Giant Pandas at the Bottom of the Sea? A Strange-Looking New Species of Colonial Ascidians in the Genus Clavelina (Tunicata: Ascidiacea)". Species Diversity: 53–64. doi:10.12782/specdiv.29.53. Retrieved 19 February 2024.