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Genus of sea squirts

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
C. cyclus
Bluebell tunicate (C. puertosecensis)

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

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.

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.
Tunicate genera
Tunicata
Appendicularia
(Larvacea)
Fritillariidae
Oikopleuridae
Stolidobranchia
(Pleurogona)
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Molgulidae
Pyuridae
Styelidae
Thaliacea
Pyrosomatidae
Salpidae
Doliolida
Doliopsidae
Doliolidae
Enterogona¹
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Halocynthia roretzi

Microcosmus sabatieri

Pyrosoma
Enterogona
Aplousobranchia
Clavelinidae
Diazonidae
Didemnidae
Holozoidae
Polycitoridae
Polyclinidae
Protopolyclinidae
Pseudodistomidae
Ritterellidae
Phlebobranchia
Agneziidae
Ascidiidae
Cionidae
Corellidae
Octacnemidae
Perophoridae
Plurellidae
Pycnoclavella diminuta

Didemnum molle

Megalodicopia hians
Tunicate-like fossils
Ediacaran
Cambrian
Later
Khmeriamorpha
Ichnotaxa
Megasiphon thylakos
Taxon identifiers
Clavelina


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