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WoRMS name details

Urochordata

AphiaID

1822 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1822)

Classification

Authority

Haeckel, 1874

Status

unaccepted (Junior Synonym)

Accepted name

Tunicata

Rank

Subphylum

Parent

Chordata

Environment

marine, brackish

Original description

Balfour, F. M. (1881). A treatise on comparative embryology. London, MacMillan. Volume 2: i-xi, 1-655, i-xxi. [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Urochordata. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1822 on 2025-07-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2005-01-31 10:07:48Z

changed

Sanamyan, Karen

2016-02-17 08:38:10Z

checked

Gittenberger, Arjan

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Balfour, F. M. (1881). A treatise on comparative embryology. London, MacMillan. Volume 2: i-xi, 1-655, i-xxi. [details]

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]

Other

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors