Clavelina

Clavelina
Clavelina picta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Tunicata
Class:	Ascidiacea
Order:	Aplousobranchia
Family:	Clavelinidae
Genus:	Clavelina Savigny, 1816[1]

C. cyclus

Bluebell tunicate (C. puertosecensis)

Clavelina ("little bottle") is genus of sea squirts (the Ascidiacea), containing the following species:[2]

• Clavelina amplexa Kott, 2002
• Clavelina arafurensis Tokioka, 1952
• Clavelina auracea Monniot, 1997
• Clavelina australis (Herdman, 1899)
• Clavelina baudinensis Kott, 1957
• Clavelina borealis Savigny, 1816
• Clavelina brasiliensis (Millar, 1977)
• Clavelina breve Monniot, 1997
• Clavelina coerulea Oka, 1934
• Clavelina concrescens Hartmeyer, 1924
• Clavelina cyclus Tokioka & Nishikawa, 1975
• Clavelina cylindrica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
• Clavelina dagysa (Kott, 1957)
• Clavelina dellavallei (Zirpolo, 1825)
• Clavelina detorta (Sluiter, 1904)
• Clavelina elegans (Oka, 1927)
• Clavelina enormis Herdman, 1880
• Clavelina fasciculata Van Name, 1945
• Clavelina fecunda (Sluiter, 1904)
• Clavelina gemmae Turon, 2005
• Clavelina huntsmani Van Name, 1931
• Clavelina kottae (Millar, 1960)
• Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776)
• Clavelina maculata Monniot & Monniot, 2001
• Clavelina meridionalis (Herdman, 1891)
• Clavelina michaelseni Millar, 1982
• Clavelina miniata Watanabe & Tokioka, 1973
• Clavelina minuta Tokioka, 1962
• Clavelina mirabilis Kott, 1972
• Clavelina moluccensis (Sluiter, 1904)
• Clavelina neapolitana Della Valle, 1881
• Clavelina nigra Kott, 1990
• Clavelina obesa Nishikawa & Tokioka, 1976
• Clavelina oblonga Herdman, 1880
• Clavelina oliva Kott, 1990
• Clavelina ossipandae Hasegawa & Kahijira, 2024
• Clavelina ostrearium (Michaelsen, 1930)
• Clavelina phlegraea Salfi, 1929
• Clavelina picta (Verrill, 1900)
• Clavelina polycitorella (Tokioka, 1954)
• Clavelina pseudobaudinensis (Kott, 1976)
• Clavelina puertosecensis Millar & Goodbody, 1974
• Clavelina robusta Kott, 1990
• Clavelina roseola Millar, 1955
• Clavelina sabbadini Brunetti, 1987
• Clavelina simplex Kott, 2006
• Clavelina steenbrasensis Millar, 1955
• Clavelina viola Tokioka & Nishikawa, 1976

Phylogeny

Cladogram of Clavelina and related genera.

A 2024 study of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene sequences found that Clavelina was paraphyletic to the genus Nephtheis.[3]

References

1. Savigny, 1816. Mémoires sur les Animaux sans Vertèbres, &c. Paris, 1816
2. Karen Sanamyan & Claude Monniot (2011). Noa Shenkar; Arjan Gittenberger; Gretchen Lambert; Marc Rius; Rosana Moreira Da Rocha & Billie J. Swalla (eds.). "Clavelina". Ascidiacea World Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
3. Hasegawa, Naohiro; Kajihara, Hiroshi (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: 53–64. doi:10.12782/specdiv.29.53. Retrieved 19 February 2024.