Clavelina ossipandae

Clavelina ossipandae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Aplousobranchia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Tunicata Classis: Ascidiacea Ordo: Aplousobranchia

Familia: Clavelinidae
Genus: Clavelina
Species: Clavelina ossipandae

Name

Clavelina ossipandae Hasegawa & Kajihara, 2024

Type locality: Off the southeast coast of Kumejima Island in the Okinawa Islands, Japan. 26.269444°N 126.819167°E / 26.269444; 126.819167. Depth 10–20 m.

Holotype: ICHUM 5837.

Paratypes: ICHUM 5838–5840.

Synonymy

• Clavelina ossipandae Hasegawa & Kajihara, 2024: 57–61; figs. 2–4.

References

• Hasegawa, N. & Kajihara, H. 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). Species Diversity. 29(1): 53–64. DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.29.53 . Reference page. 

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