Pyura

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Pyura
Pyura spinifera.jpg
The sea tulip Pyura spinifera
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Tunicata
Class: Ascidiacea
Order: Stolidobranchia
Family: Pyuridae
Genus: Pyura
Molina, 1782
Species

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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]

  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Millar, 1975)
  • (Van Name, 1921)
  • (Herdman, 1882)
  • (Herdman, 1906)
  • (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • (Millar, 1975)
  • (Michaelsen, 1904)
  • (Sluiter, 1904)
  • (Monniot, 1994)
  • (Vorontsova & Cole, 1995)
  • (Brewin, 1946)
  • (Hartmeyer)
  • (Brewin, 1948)
  • Pyura chilensis (Molina, 1782)
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 1991)
  • (Hartmeyer, 1906)
  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Michaelsen, 1922)
  • (Tokioka, 1950)
  • Pyura dalbyi (Rius & Teske, 2011)[2] 'yellow cunjevoi'
  • (Herdman, 1910)
  • (Sluiter, 1898)
  • Pyura doppelgangera (Rius & Teske, 2013)[3] 'doppelganger cunjevoi'
  • (Van Name, 1918)
  • (Heller, 1877)
  • (Tokioka, 1952)
  • (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
  • (Herdman, 1881)
  • (Savigny, 1816)
  • (Michaelsen, 1898)
  • (Heller, 1878)
  • Pyura haustor (Stimpson, 1864)
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 2003)
  • Pyura herdmani (Drasche, 1884) 'Herdman's red bait'
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 1987)
  • (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • (Monniot, 1978)
  • (Herdman, 1881)
  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Herdman, 1906)
  • (Lesson, 1830)
  • (Tokioka, 1949)
  • (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • (Kott, 1956)
  • (Sluiter, 1900)
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 1983)
  • (Rodrigues, 1966)
  • (Savigny, 1816)
  • (Drasche, 1884)
  • (Herdman, 1899)
  • (Monniot, 2002)
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 1982)
  • (Van Name, 1902)
  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Hartmeyer, 1919)
  • (Hartmeyer & Michaelsen, 1928)
  • Pyura pachydermatina (Herdman, 1881) 'sea tulip'
  • (Michaelsen, 1900)
  • (Savigny, 1816)
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 1991)
  • (Brewin, 1950)
  • Monniot & Monniot, 1974)
  • (Sluiter, 1904)
  • Pyura praeputialis (Heller, 1878) 'cunjevoi'
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 1967)
  • (Sluiter, 1900)
  • (Kott, 1990)
  • (Hartmeyer, 1922)
  • (Brewin, 1948)
  • (Drasche, 1884)
  • (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Sluiter, 1905)
  • (Tokioka, 1949)
  • Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) 'sea tulip'
  • (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • (Michaelsen, 1922)
  • (Hartmeyer, 1911)
  • (Alder, 1863)
  • Pyura stolonifera (Heller, 1878) 'red bait'
  • (Michaelsen, 1900)
  • (Monniot & Monniot, 2001)
  • (Sluiter, 1900)
  • (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Forbes, 1848)
  • (Sluiter, 1898)
  • (Tokioka, 1953)
  • (Sluiter, 1900)
  • (Kott, 1969)
  • (Sluiter, 1905)
  • (author unknown)
  • (Monniot, 1991)
  • (Monniot, 1994)
  • (Kott, 1985)
  • (Stimpson, 1852)

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103524 accessed 13 August 2010
  2. ^ Rius, Marc; Peter R. Teske (2011). "A revision of the Pyura stolonifera species complex (Tunicata, Ascidiacea), with a description of a new species from Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2754: 27–40.
  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.

External links[]

Data related to Pyura at Wikispecies

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