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WoRMS taxon details

Aplousobranchia

AphiaID

103434 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103434)

Classification

Authority

Lahille, 1886

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Ascidiacea

Direct children (16)

Ordering

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Family Clavelinidae Forbes & Hanley, 1848
Family Diazonidae Seeliger, 1906
Family Didemnidae Giard, 1872
Family Euherdmaniidae Ritter, 1904
Family Holozoidae Berrill, 1950
Family Placentelidae Kott, 1992
Family Polycitoridae Michaelsen, 1904
Family Polyclinidae Milne Edwards, 1841
Family Protopolyclinidae Kott, 1992
Family Pseudodistomidae Harant, 1931
Family Ritterellidae Kott, 1992
Family Stomozoidae Kott, 1990
Family Vitrumidae Kott, 2009
Family Coelocormidae Herdman, 1886 accepted as Didemnidae Giard, 1872 (synonym)
Family Euherdmanniidae Ritter, 1904 accepted as Euherdmaniidae Ritter, 1904 (misspelling)
Family Pycnoclavellidae Kott, 1990 accepted as Clavelinidae Forbes & Hanley, 1848 (Invalid taxon. Ref: Perez-Portela & Turon (2008) Invertebrate Biology 127:108-120)

Environment

marine, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Lahille, F. (1886). Sur le classification des Tuniciers. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris. 16: 1573-1575. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Aplousobranchia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103434 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Monniot, Claude

2007-11-24 04:53:43Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2007-12-04 16:57:19Z

checked

Sanamyan, Karen

2010-06-25 11:54:01Z

changed

Gittenberger, Arjan

2010-09-13 10:21:28Z

changed

Gittenberger, Arjan

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Nomenclature

original description Lahille, F. (1886). Sur le classification des Tuniciers. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris. 16: 1573-1575. [details]

basis of record Monniot, C. (2001). Ascidiacea & Sorberacea. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 352-355. (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