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Tunicata 
AphiaID: 146420

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum)
Authority Lamarck, 1816
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Subphylum
Parent Chordata
Synonymised
taxa
  Urochordata (Junior Synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch manteldieren  [details]
Dutch zakpijpen (from synonym)  [details]
English sea pork  [details]
English sea squirts  [details]
English urochordates  [details]
Swedish manteldjur  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Class Appendicularia
Class Ascidiacea
Class Sorberacea
Class Thaliacea

Class Larvacea accepted as Appendicularia
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146420
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-01-31 10:07:48Z  changed  Sanamyan, Karen
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Tunicata. In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turron, X. (2013) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146420 on 2013-05-24
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