Pleurogona

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Pleurogona
Botrylloides leachi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Urochordata
Class: Ascidiacea
Order: Pleurogona
Suborders and families

Suborder Stolidobranchia

  • Family Botryllidae

Pleurogona is an order of tunicates. One of the more invasive species of this order is the "stalked (or leathery or solitary) sea squirt" Styela clava [1][2][3]. Another invasive genus include the "chain sea squirts or chain tunicates" of the genus Botrylloides [4][5] and the "golden star tunicate" Botryllus schlosseri [6].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Leathery sea squirt Styela clava Herdman, 1881. CSIRO (2006-12-07).
  2. ^ Asian stalked sea squirt, Pacific rough sea squirt (Styela clava). University of Rhode Island.
  3. ^ Invasive sea squirt (Styela clava) fact sheet. NIWA Science.
  4. ^ M.J. de Kluijver & S.S. Ingalsuo. Macrobenthos of the North Sea: Botrylloides leachi. University of Amsterdam.
  5. ^ Andrew N. Cohen (2005-06-07). Guide to the Exotic Species of San Francisco Bay: Botrylloides violaceus Oka, 1927. San Francisco Estuary Institute.
  6. ^ M.J. de Kluijver & S.S. Ingalsuo. Macrobenthos of the North Sea: Botrylloides schlosseri. University of Amsterdam.
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