Clavelinidae

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Clavelinidae

| authority = Forbes & Hanley, 1848

| image = Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776) - Banyuls-sur-Mer - 07.91.jpg

| image_caption = Clavelina lepadiformis

| image_upright = 0.7

| synonyms={{taxon list|Pycnoclavellidae|Kott, 1990}}

| synonyms_ref=

| type_genus = Clavelina

| type_genus_authority = Savigny, 1816

}}

Clavelinidae is a family of tunicates in the order Aplousobranchia.

Genera

{{As of|2024}}, WoRMS recognizes the following genera in the family Clavelinidae:

Clavelina {{small|Savigny, 1816}}
Euclavella {{small|Kott, 1990}}
Nephtheis {{small|Gould, 1856}}
Pycnoclavella {{small|Garstang, 1891}}

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.{{Cite journal |last=Pérez‐Portela |first=Rocío |last2=Turon |first2=Xavier |date=January 2008 |title=Phylogenetic relationships of the Clavelinidae and Pycnoclavellidae (Ascidiacea) inferred from mtDNA data |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00112.x |journal=Invertebrate Biology |language=en |volume=127 |issue=1 |pages=108–120 |doi=10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00112.x |issn=1077-8306}}{{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=2024-02-19 |website=Species Diversity |pages=53–64 |doi=10.12782/specdiv.29.53|doi-access=free }}

References

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{{cite book |last1=Forbes |first1=Edward |last2=Hanley |first2=Sylvanus |title=A History of British Mollusca, and Their Shells |date=1853 |origyear=1848 |publisher=John van Voorst |location=London |pages=25–28 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12878452 |chapter=Clavelinidæ; or, Social Ascidians |volume=I. Including the Tunicata, and the Families of Lamellibranchiata as far as Cyprinidæ}}

{{cite journal |last1=Kott |first1=Patricia |title=The Australian Ascidiacea Part 2, Aplousobranchia (1) |date=1990 |pages=66–67 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40604411 |volume = 29 | issue = 1 |journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum}}

{{cite WoRMS |author=Shenkar, N. |author2=Gittenberger, A. |author3=Lambert, G. |author4=Rius, M. |author5=Moreira Da Rocha, R. |author6=Swalla, B.J. |author7=Turon, X. |year=2018 |title=Clavelinidae Forbes & Hanley, 1848 |id=103438 |accessdate=February 26, 2024 |db=Ascidiacea }}

{{cite journal |last1=Pérez-Portela |first1=Rocío |last2=Turon |first2=Xavier |title=Phylogenetic relationships of the Clavelinidae and Pycnoclavellidae (Ascidiacea) inferred from mtDNA data |journal=Invertebrate Biology |date=2008 |volume=127 |issue=1 |pages=108–120 |doi=10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00112.x |jstor=40206249|doi-access=free }}

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Category:Tunicate families

Category:Taxa named by Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley