original description
Herdman, W. A. (1881). Preliminary report on the Tunicata of the Challenger expedition. Cynthiidae. <em>Proceeding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 11(3): 52-88., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48710941 [details]
additional source
Herdman, W. A. (1882). Report on the Tunicata collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Part 1, Ascidiae simplices. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 6 (part 17): 1-296, pl. 1-37., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-17/README.htm [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Genetic nomenclature abbreviation Poirre [details]