| Pyuridae | |
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| Microcosmus sabatieri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Tunicata |
| Class: | Ascidiacea |
| Order: | Stolidobranchia |
| Family: | Pyuridae |
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Pyuridae is a family of tunicates. [1]
Species of Halocynthia, Microcosmus and Pyuraspp. are eaten as seafoods.
Ascidiacea, commonly known as the ascidians or sea squirts, is a paraphyletic class in the subphylum Tunicata of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. Ascidians are characterized by a tough outer "tunic" made of a polysaccharide.
Herdmania is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
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.
Microcosmus is a genus of tunicates in the family Pyuridae, containing the following species:
Phlebobranchia is an order of sea squirts in the class Ascidiacea, first described by Fernando Lahille in 1886.
Halocynthia is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae. Species such as H. roretzi are eaten in parts of Asia as a delicacy.
Stolidobranchia is an order of tunicates in the class Ascidiacea. The group includes both colonial and solitary animals. They are distinguished from other tunicates by the presence of folded pharyngeal baskets. This provides the etymology of their name: in ancient Greek, στολίς, ίδος means the "fold" of a cloth. Stolidobranchian sea squirts are also characterized by the complete absence of an abdomen. The abdominal organs of other tunicates are instead located to one side of the pharyngeal basket in this group.
Pyura chilensis, called piure in Spanish and piür or piwü in Mapudungun, is a tunicate of the family Pyuridae. It was described in 1782 by Juan Ignacio Molina.
Oligotrema is a genus of marine tunicates.
Protomolgula is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Molgulidae.
Bathypyura is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
Boltenia is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
Bolteniopsis is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
Cratostigma is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
Culeolus is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
Hartmeyeria is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
Heterostigma is a genus of ascidian tunicates in the family Pyuridae.
Halocynthia igaboja, commonly known as sea hedgehog, bristly tunicate or spiny sea squirt, is a species of tunicate in the family Pyuridae. It is native to the northeastern Pacific Ocean. This species was first described in 1906 by the Japanese marine biologist Asajiro Oka, who gave it the name Cynthia ritteri. It was later transferred to the genus Halocynthia.
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