Aplousobranchia

Aplousobranchia
Didemnum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Tunicata
Class: Ascidiacea
Order: Aplousobranchia
Lahille, 1887
Families

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Synonyms

Krikobranchiae

Aplousobranchia is an order of sea squirts in the class Ascidiacea, first described by Fernando Lahille in 1886.[1][2] They are colonial animals, and are distinguished from other sea squirts by the presence of relatively simple pharyngeal baskets. This provides the etymology of their name: in ancient greek, ἁ.πλοος-ους (ha.ploos-ous) means "simple". The posterior part of the abdomen contains the heart and gonads, and is typically larger than in other sea squirts.

Taxonomy

Order Aplousobranchia[3]

References

  1. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Aplousobranchia". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
  2. ^ Lahille, F. (1886). Sur le classification des Tuniciers. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris. 16: 1573-1575
  3. ^ Gittenberger, A.; Sanamyan, K. (2015). Aplousobranchia. In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2015) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-23
  4. ^ "Colella Herdman, 1886". WoRMS. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  • Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 1042. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.