CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Ascidiacea (class)  »  Stolidobranchia (order)  »  Pyuridae (family)

CAAB Code:	35 032057 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pyura dalbyi   Rius & Teske, 2011
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps) Family: 35 32 Pyuridae (ascidians, sea squirts) - show full list Common Name: [an ascidian] Organism Type: an ascidian Synonyms: Pyura stolonifera Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 35 032901     Pyura spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was previously known as Pyura stolonifera, but the latter is now considered to be a species complex, and P. stolonifera s.s. is restricted to southern Africa. P. dalbyi is currently known from southern Australia. See Rius & Teske, 2013.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:4a0bcdb2-a73e-49d4-b9aa-470951ba92e7 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:564381 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

<

Record source:	Rius, M., Teske, P.R., 2011. A revision of the Pyura stolonifera species complex (Tunicata, Ascidiacea), with a description of a new species from Australia., Zootaxa, Vol. 2754: 27-40.
Scientific Name verified against:	Rius, M., Teske, P.R., 2013. Cryptic diversity in coastal Australasia: a morphological and mitonuculear genetic analysis of habitat-forming sibling species., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 168: 597-611.