Pyura

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Urochordata
Classis: Ascidiacea
Ordo: Pleurogona
Subordo: Stolidobranchia
Familia: Pyuridae
Genus: Pyura
Species (98): P. abradata - P. ambonensis - P. antillarum - P. arenosa - P. aripuensis - P. australis - P. baliensis - P. bouvetensis - P. breviramosa - P. cadamostoi - P. camranica - P. cancellata - P. capensis - P. carnea - P. chilensis - P. columna - P. comma - P. confragosa - P. crassacapitata - P. crinita - P. curvigona - P. dalbyi - P. discoveryi - P. discrepans - P. duplicata - P. dura - P. elongata - P. erythrostoma - P. fissa - P. gangelion - P. georgiana - P. gibbosa - P. haustor - P. hebridensis - P. herdmani - P. honu - P. hupferi - P. inopinata - P. irregularis - P. isobella - P. lanka - P. legumen - P. lepidoderma - P. lignosa - P. littoralis - P. lutea - P. lycoperdon - P. mariscata - P. microcosmus - P. millari - P. mirabilis - P. molguloides - P. mozambica - P. multiruga - P. munita - P. navicula - P. obesa - P. ostreophila - P. pachydermatina - P. paessleri - P. pantex - P. pennata - P. picta - P. pilosa - P. polycarpa - P. praeputialis - P. praia - P. pulla - P. rapaformis - P. robusta - P. rugata - P. sacciformis - P. sansibarica - P. scortea - P. setosa - P. shiinoi - P. spinifera - P. spinosa - P. spinosissima - P. squamata - P. squamulosa - P. stolonifera - P. stubenrauchi - P. styeliformis - P. subuculata - P. suteri - P. tasmanensis - P. tessellata - P. torpida - P. trigamica - P. trita - P. tunica - P. turqueti - P. typica - P. uatio - P. vannamei - P. viarecta - P. vittata

Name

Pyura Molina, 1782 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Melville (1981: 174), with Name Number 2124]
Gender: feminine
Type species: Pyura chilensis Molina, 1782
Fixation: monotypy

References

Melville, R.V. 1981: Opinion 1182. Tethyidae in Mollusca, Porifera and Tunicata: removal of the homonymy. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 38(3): 174-177. BHL BioStor
Molina 1782: Sag. stor. nat. Chili, 196.
Rius, M.; Teske, P.R. 2011: A revision of the Pyura stolonifera species complex (Tunicata, Ascidiacea), with a description of a new species from Australia. Zootaxa, 2754: 27–40. Preview PDF

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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Sanamyan, K.; Monniot, C. (2011). Pyura. In: Noa Shenkar, Arjan Gittenberger, Gretchen Lambert, Marc Rius, Rosana Moreira Da Rocha, Billie J Swalla (2010) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103524 on 2011-08-17

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