Pycnoclavella is a genus of sea squirts first circumscribed by Walter Garstang in 1891.[1] The generic name comes from the Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós) meaning "closely united".[1] In 1990, Patricia Kott placed Pycnoclavella in its own family, Pycnoclavellidae, but in 2008 it was moved back to Clavelinidae.[4]

Pycnoclavella
Pycnoclavella taureanensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Tunicata
Class: Ascidiacea
Order: Aplousobranchia
Family: Clavelinidae
Genus: Pycnoclavella
Garstang, 1891[1]
Type species
Pycnoclavella aurilucens
Garstang, 1891
Synonyms[2]
  • Archiascidia Julin, 1904[3]

As of 2018, WoRMS recognizes the following species:[2]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Garstang, Walter (1891). "Report on the Tunicata of Plymouth". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 2 (1): 53. doi:10.1017/S0025315400049468. S2CID 86755933.
  2. 1 2 Shenkar, N., Gittenberger, A., Lambert, G., Rius, M., Moreira Da Rocha, R., Swalla, B.J., Turon, X. (2018). Shenkar N, Gittenberger A, Lambert G, Rius M, Moreira Da Rocha R, Swalla BJ, Turon X (eds.). "Pycnoclavella Garstang, 1891". Ascidiacea World Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  3. Julin, Charles (1904). "Recherches sur la phylogenèse des Tuniciers. Archiascidia neapolitana nov. gen., nov. sp". Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 16 (4): 489–552.
  4. Pérez-Portela, Rocío; Turon, Xavier (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Clavelinidae and Pycnoclavellidae (Ascidiacea) inferred from mtDNA data". Invertebrate Biology. 127 (1): 108–120. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00112.x. JSTOR 40206249.