Clavelina

{{Short description|Genus of sea squirts}}

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| image_caption = Clavelina picta

| taxon = Clavelina

| authority = Savigny, 1816Savigny, 1816. Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, &c. Paris, 1816

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Clavelina ("little bottle") is genus of sea squirts (Ascidiacea).

Species

The genus contains the following species:{{cite web |author1=Karen Sanamyan |author2=Claude Monniot |name-list-style=amp |year=2011 |title=Clavelina |editor1=Noa Shenkar |editor2=Arjan Gittenberger |editor3=Gretchen Lambert |editor4=Marc Rius |editor5=Rosana Moreira Da Rocha |editor6=Billie J. Swalla |editor6-link=Billie J. Swalla |work=Ascidiacea World Database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103453 |accessdate=June 25, 2011}}

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Phylogeny

File:Clavelina ossipandae cladogram.png

A 2024 study of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene sequences found that Clavelina was paraphyletic to the genus Nephtheis.{{Cite journal |last1=Hasegawa |first1=Naohiro |last2=Kajihara |first2=Hiroshi |date=2024 |title=Graveyards of Giant Pandas at the Bottom of the Sea? A Strange-Looking New Species of Colonial Ascidians in the Genus Clavelina (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/specdiv/29/1/29_SD22-16/_article |access-date=19 February 2024 |website=Species Diversity |pages=53–64 |doi=10.12782/specdiv.29.53|doi-access=free }}

==References==

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Category:Clavelinidae

Category:Tunicate genera

Category:Taxa named by Marie Jules César Savigny

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