Clavelinidae Explained

Clavelinidae is a family of tunicates in the order Aplousobranchia.

Genera

, WoRMS recognizes the following genera in the family Clavelinidae:

• Clavelina
• Euclavella
• Nephtheis
• Pycnoclavella

Phylogeny

Pycnoclavella has occasionally been placed in a separate family, Pycnoclavellidae, although phylogenetic studies have recovered it as a relative of Clavelina. In multiple analyses, the monotypic genus Nephtheis appears to branch from within Clavelina.^{[1] [2]}

Notes and References

1. Pérez‐Portela . Rocío . Turon . Xavier . January 2008 . Phylogenetic relationships of the Clavelinidae and Pycnoclavellidae (Ascidiacea) inferred from mtDNA data . Invertebrate Biology . en . 127 . 1 . 108–120 . 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00112.x . 1077-8306.
2. 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) . 2024-02-19 . Species Diversity . 53–64 . 10.12782/specdiv.29.53. free .