Pycnoclavella Explained
Pycnoclavella is a genus of sea squirts first circumscribed by Walter Garstang in 1891. The generic name comes from the Ancient Greek (puknós) meaning "closely united". In 1990, Patricia Kott placed Pycnoclavella in its own family, Pycnoclavellidae, but in 2008 it was moved back to Clavelinidae.[1]
, WoRMS recognizes the following species:
- Pycnoclavella arenosa
- Pycnoclavella atlantica
- Pycnoclavella aurantia
- Pycnoclavella aurilucens
- Pycnoclavella belizeana
- Pycnoclavella brava
- Pycnoclavella communis
- Pycnoclavella detorta
- Pycnoclavella diminuta
- Pycnoclavella elongata
- Pycnoclavella filamentosa
- Pycnoclavella flava
- Pycnoclavella inflorescens
- Pycnoclavella kottae
- Pycnoclavella martae
- Pycnoclavella minuta
- Pycnoclavella nana
- Pycnoclavella narcissus
- Pycnoclavella neapolitana
- Pycnoclavella producta
- Pycnoclavella stanleyi
- Pycnoclavella stolonialis
- Pycnoclavella tabella
- Pycnoclavella taureanensis
Notes and References
- Pérez-Portela . Rocío . Turon . Xavier . Phylogenetic relationships of the Clavelinidae and Pycnoclavellidae (Ascidiacea) inferred from mtDNA data . Invertebrate Biology . 2008 . 127 . 1 . 108–120 . 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00112.x . 40206249. free .
