Clavelina

Clavelina
	Clavelina picta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Tunicata
Class:	Ascidiacea
Order:	Aplousobranchia
Family:	Clavelinidae
Genus:	Clavelina; Savigny, 1816

Clavelina ("little bottle") is genus of sea squirts (the Ascidiacea), containing the following species:^[2]

Clavelina amplexa Kott, 2002
Clavelina arafurensis Tokioka, 1952
Clavelina auracea Monniot, 1997
Clavelina australis (Herdman, 1899)
Clavelina baudinensis Kott, 1957
Clavelina borealis Savigny, 1816
Clavelina brasiliensis (Millar, 1977)
Clavelina breve Monniot, 1997
Clavelina coerulea Oka, 1934
Clavelina concrescens Hartmeyer, 1924
Clavelina cyclus Tokioka & Nishikawa, 1975
Clavelina cylindrica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Clavelina dagysa (Kott, 1957)
Clavelina dellavallei (Zirpolo, 1825)
Clavelina detorta (Sluiter, 1904)
Clavelina elegans (Oka, 1927)
Clavelina enormis Herdman, 1880
Clavelina fasciculata Van Name, 1945
Clavelina fecunda (Sluiter, 1904)
Clavelina gemmae Turon, 2005
Clavelina huntsmani Van Name, 1931
Clavelina kottae (Millar, 1960)
Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776)
Clavelina maculata Monniot & Monniot, 2001
Clavelina meridionalis (Herdman, 1891)
Clavelina michaelseni Millar, 1982
Clavelina miniata Watanabe & Tokioka, 1973
Clavelina minuta Tokioka, 1962
Clavelina mirabilis Kott, 1972
Clavelina moluccensis (Sluiter, 1904)
Clavelina neapolitana Della Valle, 1881
Clavelina nigra Kott, 1990
Clavelina obesa Nishikawa & Tokioka, 1976
Clavelina oblonga Herdman, 1880
Clavelina oliva Kott, 1990
Clavelina ossipandae Hasegawa & Kahijira, 2024
Clavelina ostrearium (Michaelsen, 1930)
Clavelina phlegraea Salfi, 1929
Clavelina picta (Verrill, 1900)
Clavelina polycitorella (Tokioka, 1954)
Clavelina pseudobaudinensis (Kott, 1976)
Clavelina puertosecensis Millar & Goodbody, 1974
Clavelina robusta Kott, 1990
Clavelina roseola Millar, 1955
Clavelina sabbadini Brunetti, 1987
Clavelina simplex Kott, 2006
Clavelina steenbrasensis Millar, 1955
Clavelina viola Tokioka & Nishikawa, 1976

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.^[3]

References

^ Savigny, 1816. Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, &c. Paris, 1816
^ 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.
^ 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.

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[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.

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