Didemnidae

Atriolum robustum on Siphonogorgia godeffroyi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Aplousobranchia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Tunicata Classis: Ascidiacea Ordo: Aplousobranchia

Familia: Didemnidae
Genera (9): Atriolum – Clitella – Coelocormus – Didemnum – Diplosoma – Leptoclinides – Lissoclinum – Polysyncraton – Trididemnum

[Source: Ascidiacea World Database (WoRMS, 2017)]

Name

• Didemnidae Giard, 1872

Type species: Didemnum Savigny, 1816.

References

Primary references

• Giard, A.M. 1872. Recherches sur les ascidies composées ou synascidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 1: 613–662.

Additional references

• Kott, P. 1983. Two new genera of didemnid ascidians from tropical Australian waters. The Beagle, Occasional Papers of the Northen Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 1: 13–19.
• Hirose, E. & M. Hirose, 2011. A New Didemnid Ascidian Lissoclinum midui sp. nov. from Kumejima Island (Okinawa, Japan), with Remarks on the Absence of a Common Cloacal System and the Presence of an Unknown Organ. Zoological Science 28(6): 462–468. Abstract: DOI: 10.2108/zsj.28.462.
• Nagaya, K. & Hirose, E. 2013. Pattern of stigma numbers as a taxonomic character in some didemnid ascidians (Aplousobranchia: Didemnidae). Zootaxa 3608(1): 87–93. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.7 Reference page. 

Links

• Didemnidae in the Ascidiacea World Database

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