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Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) 
AphiaID: 251300

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Tunicata (Subphylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Stolidobranchia (Order) > Pyuridae (Family) > Pyura (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pyura Molina, 1782
Synonymised
taxa
  Ascidia spinifera Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 (original combination)
Boltenia australiensis Carter, 1885 (original combination)
Boltenia spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (new combination)
Boltenia spinosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (new combination)
Boltenia tuberculata Herdman, 1891 (original combination)
Cynthia multiradicata Herdman, 1898
Cynthia multiradicata Herdman, 1899 (original combination)
Pyura australiensis (Carter, 1885) (new combination)
Pyura multiradicata (Herdman, 1899) (new combination)
Sources  basis of record: Kott, P. (1985) The Australian Ascidiacea part 1, Phlebobranchia and Stolidobranchia Mem. Qd Mus. 23: 1-440. [details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

original description (from synonym): Quoy, J., A. Gaimard (1834) Animaux Mollusques. In: Voyages de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe exkecutes par orde du Roi, pendant les annees 1826-29, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie, Paris, 3: 559-625. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Carter, H.J. (1885) Descriptions of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia, continued. Ann. Mag. Nat. hist. (5) 15: 196-222 [details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Herdman, W.A. (1891) A revised classification of the Tunicata, with definition of the orders, suborders, families, subfamilies, and genera, and analytical keys to the species Jour. Linnaean Soc. London, Zool., 23: 558-652. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Herdman, W.A. (1899) Descriptive catalogue of the Tunicata in the Australian Museum. Liverpol, 139pp. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Australia [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:251300
Taxonomic
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2007-12-05 12:32:01Z  created  Sanamyan, Karen
  
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  Citation: Sanamyan, K. (2013). Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). In: Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira Da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turron, X. (2013) Ascidiacea World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=251300 on 2013-06-20
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