Ascidia

{{Short description|Genus of sea squirts}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = Ascidia.JPG | taxon = Ascidia | authority = Linnaeus, 1767 | synonyms_ref= <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms= * ''Ascidea'' Linnaeus, 1767 (spelling variation) * ''Ascidie'' Linnaeus, 1767 (spelling variation) * ''Ascidiopsis'' Verrill, 1872 * ''Bathyascidia'' Hartmeyer, 1901 * ''Phallusioides'' Huntsman, 1912 * ''Tunica'' }}

'''''Ascidia''''' is a genus of tunicates in the family Ascidiidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |author=Karen Sanamyan & Claude Monniot |year=2013 |title=''Ascidia'' Linnaeus, 1767 |db=Ascidiacea |id=103483 |accessdate=February 25, 2012}}</ref><ref name="ZT2864">{{cite journal |author1=N. Y. K. Bonnet |author2=R. M. Rocha |name-list-style=amp |year=2011 |title=The family Ascidiidae Herdman (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) in Bocas del Toro Panama. Description of six new species |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2864 |pages=1–33|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2864.1.1 }}</ref>

==Selected species== thumb|upright|Diagrammatic section of an ''Ascidia'', representing the three sacs and the branchial sac as the pharynx or throat: (a) branchial orifice; (b) atrial orifice; (c) tunic or test (d) mantle; (e) branchial sac; (f) gullet; (g) stomach; (h) anal orifice; (i) dorsal lamina; the dotted line indicates the endostyle. {{div col|colwidth=21em}} * ''Ascidia achimotae'' Millar, 1953 * ''Ascidia adamanensis'' Oka, 1915 * ''Ascidia ahodori'' Oka, 1927 * ''Ascidia alisea'' Monniot & Monniot, 2006 * ''Ascidia alpha'' Tokioka, 1953 * ''Ascidia alterna'' Monniot & Monniot, 1991 * ''Ascidia archaia'' Sluiter, 1890 * ''Ascidia arenosa'' Hartmeyer, 1898 * ''Ascidia armata'' Hartmeyer, 1906 * ''Ascidia aspera'' Brunetti, 2007 * ''Ascidia austera'' Sluiter, 1904 * ''Ascidia aximensis'' Millar, 1953 * ''Ascidia azurea'' Monniot & Monniot, 1996 * ''Ascidia bathybia'' Hartmeyer, 1922 * ''Ascidia bifissa'' Sluiter, 1895 * ''Ascidia bocatorensis'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011<ref name="ZT2864"/> * ''Ascidia caguayensis'' Millar & Goodbody, 1974 * ''Ascidia callosa'' Stimpson, 1852 * ''Ascidia canaliculata'' Heller, 1878 * ''Ascidia cannelata'' Oken, 1820 * ''Ascidia capillata'' Sluiter, 1887 * ''Ascidia caudata'' Heller, 1878 * ''Ascidia celtica'' C. Monniot, 1969 * ''Ascidia ceratodes'' (Huntsman, 1912) * ''Ascidia challengeri'' Herdman, 1882 * ''Ascidia citrina'' Nishikawa & Tokioka, 1975 * ''Ascidia clementea'' Ritter, 1907 * ''Ascidia collini'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011<ref name="ZT2864"/> * ''Ascidia columbiana'' (Huntsman, 1912) * ''Ascidia conchilega'' Muller, 1776 * ''Ascidia conifera'' (Hartmeyer, 1911) * ''Ascidia corallicola'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011<ref name="ZT2864"/> * ''Ascidia correi'' C. Monniot, 1970 * ''Ascidia curvata'' (Traustedt, 1882) * ''Ascidia decepta'' Kott, 1985 * ''Ascidia depressiuscula'' Heller, 1878 * ''Ascidia despecta'' Herdman, 1880 * ''Ascidia dijmphniana'' Templeton, 1834 * ''Ascidia dorsata'' Meenakshi & Renganathan, 1999 * ''Ascidia empheres'' Sluiter, 1895 * ''Ascidia escabanae'' Monniot, 1998 * ''Ascidia fictile'' Monniot, 1997 * ''Ascidia fistulosa'' Monniot & Monniot, 1967 * ''Ascidia formella'' Monniot, 1998 * ''Ascidia fusca'' Monniot & Monniot, 1989 * ''Ascidia gamma'' Tokioka, 1954 * ''Ascidia gemmata'' Sluiter, 1895 * ''Ascidia glabra'' Hartmeyer, 1922 * ''Ascidia hyalina'' Oka, 1915 * ''Ascidia iberica'' C. Monniot & F. Monniot, 1988 * ''Ascidia incrassata'' Heller, 1878 * ''Ascidia interrupta'' Heller, 1878 * ''Ascidia involuta'' Heller, 1875 * ''Ascidia irregularis'' Oka, 1915 * ''Ascidia kreagra'' Sluiter, 1895 * ''Ascidia krechi'' Michaelsen, 1904 * ''Ascidia kuneides'' Sluiter, 1887 * ''Ascidia lagena'' Michaelsen, 1922 * ''Ascidia latesiphonica'' Hartmeyer, 1922 * ''Ascidia liberata'' Sluiter, 1887 * ''Ascidia limpida'' Sluiter, 1904 * ''Ascidia longistriata'' Hartmeyer, 1906 * ''Ascidia macropapilla'' Millar, 1982 * ''Ascidia malaca'' (Traustedt, 1883) * ''Ascidia matoya'' Tokioka, 1949 * ''Ascidia mediterranea'' Pérès, 1959 * ''Ascidia melanostoma'' Sluiter, 1885 * ''Ascidia mentula'' Müller, 1776 * ''Ascidia meridionalis'' Herdman, 1880 * ''Ascidia molguloides'' C. Monniot, 1975 * ''Ascidia monnioti'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011<ref name="ZT2864"/> * ''Ascidia multitentaculata'' (Hartmeyer, 1912) * ''Ascidia munda'' Sluiter, 1897 * ''Ascidia muricata'' Heller, 1874 * ''Ascidia nerea'' Kott, 1985 * ''Ascidia nordestina'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011 * ''Ascidia nuda'' Nishikawa, 1986 * ''Ascidia obliqua'' Alder, 1863 * ''Ascidia obocki'' Sluiter, 1905 * ''Ascidia occidentalis'' Kott, 1985 * ''Ascidia ornata'' Monniot & Monniot, 2001 * ''Ascidia pacifica'' Tokioka, 1967 * ''Ascidia panamensis'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011<ref name="ZT2864"/> * ''Ascidia papillata'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011 * ''Ascidia papillosa'' Tokioka, 1967 * ''Ascidia parasamea'' Kott, 1985 * ''Ascidia paratropa'' (Huntsman, 1912) * ''Ascidia perfluxa'' Sluiter, 1904 * ''Ascidia placenta'' Herdman, 1880 * ''Ascidia polytrema'' Herdman, 1906 * ''Ascidia prolata'' Kott, 1985 * ''Ascidia prona'' Monniot & Monniot, 1994 * ''Ascidia prunum'' Müller, 1776 * ''Ascidia pygmaea'' Michaelsen, 1918 * ''Ascidia retinens'' Monniot, 1984 * ''Ascidia retrosipho'' Millar, 1988 * ''Ascidia saccula'' Kott, 2006 * ''Ascidia sagamiana'' Tokioka, 1953 * ''Ascidia salvatoris'' (Traustedt, 1885) * ''Ascidia samea'' Oka, 1935 * ''Ascidia santosi'' Millar, 1958 * ''Ascidia savignyi'' Hartmeyer, 1915 * ''Ascidia scaevola'' (Sluiter, 1904) * ''Ascidia scalariforme'' Bonnet & Rocha, 2011 * ''Ascidia spinosa'' Sluiter, 1904 * ''Ascidia stenodes'' Millar, 1962 * ''Ascidia stewartensis'' Millar, 1982 * ''Ascidia subterranea'' Kneer ''et al.'', 2013<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dominik Kneer |author2=Françoise Monniot |author3=Thomas Stach |author4=Marjolijn J |author5=. A. Christianen |year=2013 |title=''Ascidia subterranea'' sp. nov. (Phlebobranchia: Ascidiidae), a new tunicate belonging to the ''A. sydneiensis'' Stimpson, 1855 group, found as burrow associate of ''Axiopsis serratifrons'' A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Decapoda: Axiidae) on Derawan Island, Indonesia |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3616 |issue=5 |pages=485–494 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3616.5.5|url=https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03616p494.pdf }}</ref> * ''Ascidia sulca'' Monniot, 1991 * ''Ascidia sydneiensis'' Stimpson, 1855 * ''Ascidia tapuni'' Monniot & Monniot, 1987 * ''Ascidia tenera'' Herdman, 1880 * ''Ascidia tenue'' Monniot, 1983 * ''Ascidia thompsoni'' Kott, 1952 * ''Ascidia translucida'' Sluiter, 1890 * ''Ascidia tricuspis'' Sluiter, 1904 * ''Ascidia tritonis'' Herdman, 1883 * ''Ascidia trunca'' Brunetti, 2007 * ''Ascidia unalaskensis'' (Ritter, 1913) * ''Ascidia urnalia'' Monniot, 1994 * ''Ascidia vermiformis'' (Ritter, 1913) * ''Ascidia virginea'' Müller, 1776 * ''Ascidia willeyi'' Oka, 1915 * ''Ascidia xamaycana'' Millar & Goodbody, 1974 * ''Ascidia zara'' Oka, 1935 * ''Ascidia zyogasima'' Tokioka, 1962 {{div col end}}

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==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Ascidia|''Ascidia''}}

Category:Ascidiidae Category:Tunicate genera