Clavelina

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]
C. cyclus
Bluebell tunicate (C. puertosecensis)

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

Phylogeny

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

  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.