Pyura

Pyura is a large genus of sessile ascidians that live in coastal waters at depths of up to 80 m (260 feet). Like all ascidians, Pyura are filter feeders. A few species, including Pyura chilensis are commercially fished.

Pyura
The sea tulip Pyura spinifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Subphylum:
Tunicata
Class:
Ascidiacea
Order:
Pleurogona
Suborder:
Stolidobranchia
Family:
Pyuridae
Genus:
Pyura

Molina, 1782
Species:
See text

Species

Species in this genus include[1]

  • Pyura abradata (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura ambonensis (Millar, 1975)
  • Pyura antillarum (Van Name, 1921)
  • Pyura arenosa (Herdman, 1882)
  • Pyura aripuensis (Herdman, 1906)
  • Pyura australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • Pyura baliensis (Millar, 1975)
  • Pyura bouvetensis (Michaelsen, 1904)
  • Pyura breviramosa (Sluiter, 1904)
  • Pyura cadamostoi (Monniot, 1994)
  • Pyura camranica (Vorontsova & Cole, 1995)
  • Pyura cancellata (Brewin, 1946)
  • Pyura capensis (Hartmeyer)
  • Pyura carnea (Brewin, 1948)
  • Pyura chilensis (Molina, 1782)
  • Pyura columna (Monniot & Monniot, 1991)
  • Pyura comma (Hartmeyer, 1906)
  • Pyura confragosa (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura crassacapitata (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura crinita (Michaelsen, 1922)
  • Pyura curvigona (Tokioka, 1950)
  • Pyura dalbyi (Rius & Teske, 2011)[2] 'yellow cunjevoi'
  • Pyura discoveryi (Herdman, 1910)
  • Pyura discrepans (Sluiter, 1898)
  • Pyura doppelgangera (Rius & Teske, 2013)[3] 'doppelganger cunjevoi'
  • Pyura duplicata (Van Name, 1918)
  • Pyura dura (Heller, 1877)
  • Pyura elongata (Tokioka, 1952)
  • Pyura erythrostoma (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
  • Pyura fissa (Herdman, 1881)
  • Pyura gangelion (Savigny, 1816)
  • Pyura georgiana (Michaelsen, 1898)
  • Pyura gibbosa (Heller, 1878)
  • Pyura haustor (Stimpson, 1864)
  • Pyura hebridensis (Monniot & Monniot, 2003)
  • Pyura herdmani (Drasche, 1884) 'Herdman's red bait'
  • Pyura honu (Monniot & Monniot, 1987)
  • Pyura hupferi (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • Pyura inopinata (Monniot, 1978)
  • Pyura irregularis (Herdman, 1881)
  • Pyura isobella (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura lanka (Herdman, 1906)
  • Pyura legumen (Lesson, 1830)
  • Pyura lepidoderma (Tokioka, 1949)
  • Pyura lignosa (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • Pyura littoralis (Kott, 1956)
  • Pyura lutea (Sluiter, 1900)
  • Pyura lycoperdon (Monniot & Monniot, 1983)
  • Pyura mariscata (Rodrigues, 1966)
  • Pyura microcosmus (Savigny, 1816)
  • Pyura mirabilis (Drasche, 1884)
  • Pyura molguloides (Herdman, 1899)
  • Pyura mozambica (Monniot, 2002)
  • Pyura multiruga (Monniot & Monniot, 1982)
  • Pyura munita (Van Name, 1902)
  • Pyura navicula (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura obesa (Hartmeyer, 1919)
  • Pyura ostreophila (Hartmeyer & Michaelsen, 1928)
  • Pyura pachydermatina (Herdman, 1881) 'sea tulip'
  • Pyura paessleri (Michaelsen, 1900)
  • Pyura pantex (Savigny, 1816)
  • Pyura pennata (Monniot & Monniot, 1991)
  • Pyura picta (Brewin, 1950)
  • Pyura pilosa Monniot & Monniot, 1974)
  • Pyura polycarpa (Sluiter, 1904)
  • Pyura praeputialis (Heller, 1878) 'cunjevoi'
  • Pyura praia (Monniot & Monniot, 1967)
  • Pyura pulla (Sluiter, 1900)
  • Pyura rapaformis (Kott, 1990)
  • Pyura robusta (Hartmeyer, 1922)
  • Pyura rugata (Brewin, 1948)
  • Pyura sacciformis (Drasche, 1884)
  • Pyura sansibarica (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • Pyura scortea (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura setosa (Sluiter, 1905)
  • Pyura shiinoi (Tokioka, 1949)
  • Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) 'sea tulip'
  • Pyura spinosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
  • Pyura spinosissima (Michaelsen, 1922)
  • Pyura squamata (Hartmeyer, 1911)
  • Pyura squamulosa (Alder, 1863)
  • Pyura stolonifera (Heller, 1878) 'red bait'
  • Pyura stubenrauchi (Michaelsen, 1900)
  • Pyura styeliformis (Monniot & Monniot, 2001)
  • Pyura subuculata (Sluiter, 1900)
  • Pyura suteri (Michaelsen, 1908)
  • Pyura tasmanensis (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura tessellata (Forbes, 1848)
  • Pyura torpida (Sluiter, 1898)
  • Pyura trigamica (Tokioka, 1953)
  • Pyura trita (Sluiter, 1900)
  • Pyura tunica (Kott, 1969)
  • Pyura turqueti (Sluiter, 1905)
  • Pyura typica (author unknown)
  • Pyura uatio (Monniot, 1991)
  • Pyura vannamei (Monniot, 1994)
  • Pyura viarecta (Kott, 1985)
  • Pyura vittata (Stimpson, 1852)
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References
  1. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103524 accessed 13 August 2010
  2. Rius, Marc; Peter R. Teske (2011). "A revision of the Pyura stolonifera species complex (Tunicata, Ascidiacea), with a description of a new species from Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2754: 27–40.
  3. Rius, M. and Teske, P.R. (2013) Cryptic diversity in coastal Australasia: a morphological and mito-nuclear genetic analysis of habitat-forming sibling species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
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