Oligotrema

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Stolidobranchia
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: Stolidobranchia

Familia: Molgulidae
Genus: Oligotrema
Species (5): O. lyra – O. psammatodes – O. psammites – O. sandersi – O. unigonas

Name

Oligotrema Bourne, 1903: 233

• Type species: Oligotrema psammites Bourne, 1903 by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Hexacrobylus Sluiter, 1905: 325 [synonymised by Kott (1989: 525)]
  • Type species: Hexacrobylus psammatodes Sluiter, 1905 by monotypy.
• Gasterascidia Monniot & Monniot, 1968: 36 [synonymised by Kott (1989: 525)]
  • Type species: Gasterascidia sandersi Monniot & Monniot, 1968 by monotypy.
• Sorbera Monniot & Monniot, 1974: 777 [synonymised by Kott (1989: 525)]
  • Type species: Sorbera unigonas Monniot & Monniot, 1974 by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Bourne, G.C. 1903. Oligotrema psammites, a new ascidian belonging to the family Molgulidae. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 47: 233–272.
• Sluiter, C.P. 1905. Die Tunicaten der Siboga expedition. Supplement zu der I Abteilung: die socialen und holosomen Ascidien. Siboga-Expeditie 56a: 129–139. BHL
• Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. 1968. Les ascidies de grande profondeur récolées par le navire océanographique americain 'Atlantis II'. Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique 67(1379): 1–48.
• Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. 1974. Ascidies abyssales de l’Atlantique récolées par le «Jean Charcot» (campagnes Noratlante, Walda, Polygas A). Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Series 3, 226(Zoologie 154): 721–786. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Kott, P. 1989. The family Hexacrobylidae Seeliger, 1906 (Ascidiacea, Tunicata). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 517–534. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Tatián, M., Lagger, C., Demarchi, M. & Mattoni, C. 2011. Molecular phylogeny endorses the relationship between carnivorous and filter-feeding tunicates (Tunicata, Ascidiacea). Zoologica Scripta 40(6): 603–612. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00493.x Reference page.