Pyura Explained

Pyura is a large genus of sessile ascidians that live in coastal waters at depths of up to 80 m (260 feet). Like all ascidians, Pyura are filter feeders. A few species, including Pyura chilensis are commercially fished.

Species

Species in this genus include^[1]

• Pyura abradata (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura ambonensis (Millar, 1975)
• Pyura antillarum (Van Name, 1921)
• Pyura arenosa (Herdman, 1882)
• Pyura aripuensis (Herdman, 1906)
• Pyura australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Pyura baliensis (Millar, 1975)
• Pyura bouvetensis (Michaelsen, 1904)
• Pyura breviramosa (Sluiter, 1904)
• Pyura cadamostoi (Monniot, 1994)
• Pyura camranica (Vorontsova & Cole, 1995)
• Pyura cancellata (Brewin, 1946)
• Pyura capensis (Hartmeyer)
• Pyura carnea (Brewin, 1948)
• Pyura chilensis (Molina, 1782)
• Pyura columna (Monniot & Monniot, 1991)
• Pyura comma (Hartmeyer, 1906)
• Pyura confragosa (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura crassacapitata (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura crinita (Michaelsen, 1922)
• Pyura curvigona (Tokioka, 1950)
• Pyura dalbyi (Rius & Teske, 2011)^[2] 'yellow cunjevoi'
• Pyura discoveryi (Herdman, 1910)
• Pyura discrepans (Sluiter, 1898)
• Pyura doppelgangera (Rius & Teske, 2013)^[3] 'doppelganger cunjevoi'
• Pyura duplicata (Van Name, 1918)
• Pyura dura (Heller, 1877)
• Pyura elongata (Tokioka, 1952)
• Pyura erythrostoma (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
• Pyura fissa (Herdman, 1881)
• Pyura gangelion (Savigny, 1816)
• Pyura georgiana (Michaelsen, 1898)
• Pyura gibbosa (Heller, 1878)
• Pyura haustor (Stimpson, 1864)
• Pyura hebridensis (Monniot & Monniot, 2003)
• Pyura herdmani (Drasche, 1884) 'Herdman's red bait'
• Pyura honu (Monniot & Monniot, 1987)
• Pyura hupferi (Michaelsen, 1908)
• Pyura inopinata (Monniot, 1978)
• Pyura irregularis (Herdman, 1881)
• Pyura isobella (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura lanka (Herdman, 1906)
• Pyura legumen (Lesson, 1830)
• Pyura lepidoderma (Tokioka, 1949)
• Pyura lignosa (Michaelsen, 1908)
• Pyura littoralis (Kott, 1956)
• Pyura lutea (Sluiter, 1900)
• Pyura lycoperdon (Monniot & Monniot, 1983)
• Pyura mariscata (Rodrigues, 1966)
• Pyura microcosmus (Savigny, 1816)
• Pyura mirabilis (Drasche, 1884)
• Pyura molguloides (Herdman, 1899)
• Pyura mozambica (Monniot, 2002)
• Pyura multiruga (Monniot & Monniot, 1982)
• Pyura munita (Van Name, 1902)
• Pyura navicula (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura obesa (Hartmeyer, 1919)
• Pyura ostreophila (Hartmeyer & Michaelsen, 1928)
• Pyura pachydermatina (Herdman, 1881) 'sea tulip'
• Pyura paessleri (Michaelsen, 1900)
• Pyura pantex (Savigny, 1816)
• Pyura pennata (Monniot & Monniot, 1991)
• Pyura picta (Brewin, 1950)
• Pyura pilosa Monniot & Monniot, 1974)
• Pyura polycarpa (Sluiter, 1904)
• Pyura praeputialis (Heller, 1878) 'cunjevoi'
• Pyura praia (Monniot & Monniot, 1967)
• Pyura pulla (Sluiter, 1900)
• Pyura rapaformis (Kott, 1990)
• Pyura robusta (Hartmeyer, 1922)
• Pyura rugata (Brewin, 1948)
• Pyura sacciformis (Drasche, 1884)
• Pyura sansibarica (Michaelsen, 1908)
• Pyura scortea (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura setosa (Sluiter, 1905)
• Pyura shiinoi (Tokioka, 1949)
• Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) 'sea tulip'
• Pyura spinosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Pyura spinosissima (Michaelsen, 1922)
• Pyura squamata (Hartmeyer, 1911)
• Pyura squamulosa (Alder, 1863)
• Pyura stolonifera (Heller, 1878) 'red bait'
• Pyura stubenrauchi (Michaelsen, 1900)
• Pyura styeliformis (Monniot & Monniot, 2001)
• Pyura subuculata (Sluiter, 1900)
• Pyura suteri (Michaelsen, 1908)
• Pyura tasmanensis (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura tessellata (Forbes, 1848)
• Pyura torpida (Sluiter, 1898)
• Pyura trigamica (Tokioka, 1953)
• Pyura trita (Sluiter, 1900)
• Pyura tunica (Kott, 1969)
• Pyura turqueti (Sluiter, 1905)
• Pyura typica (author unknown)
• Pyura uatio (Monniot, 1991)
• Pyura vannamei (Monniot, 1994)
• Pyura viarecta (Kott, 1985)
• Pyura vittata (Stimpson, 1852)

External links

• • Wildlife of Sydney - Sea Tulip

Notes and References

1. Web site: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Pyura Molina, 1782 . www.marinespecies.org . 13 August 2010.
2. A revision of the Pyura stolonifera species complex (Tunicata, Ascidiacea), with a description of a new species from Australia. Marc. Rius. Peter R. Teske . Zootaxa. 2011. 2754. 27–40. 10.11646/zootaxa.2754.1.2 .
3. Rius, M. and Teske, P.R. (2013) Cryptic diversity in coastal Australasia: a morphological and mito-nuclear genetic analysis of habitat-forming sibling species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.