''Pyura'' is a large

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

sessile Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: * Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about * Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant * Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...

ascidians Ascidiacea, commonly known as the ascidians, tunicates (in part), and sea squirts (in part), is a polyphyletic class in the subphylum Tunicata of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. Ascidians are characterized by a tough outer "tunic" ...

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 ''Pyura chilensis,'' called in Spanish, is a tunicate of the family Pyuridae. It was described in 1782 by Juan Ignacio Molina. Taxonomy The earliest mention of the ''P. chilensis'' was in 1782 by Juan Ignacio Molina in his book . Molina, a Chile ...

are commercially fished.

Species

Species in this genus include * '' Pyura abradata'' (Kott, 1985) * '' Pyura ambonensis'' (Millar, 1975) * '' Pyura antillarum'' (Van Name, 1921) * '' Pyura arenosa'' (Herdman, 1882) * '' Pyura aripuensis'' (Herdman, 1906) * '' Pyura australis'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) * '' Pyura baliensis'' (Millar, 1975) * '' Pyura bouvetensis'' (

Michaelsen Michaelsen is a Danish patronymic surname meaning "son of Michael". There are related English, German, Norwegian, Swedish and other Scandinavian spellings of this name. People with the name Michaelsen include: People * Gottfried Michaelsen, aka ...

, 1904) * '' Pyura breviramosa'' (Sluiter, 1904) * '' Pyura cadamostoi'' (Monniot, 1994) * '' Pyura camranica'' ( Vorontsova & Cole, 1995) * '' Pyura cancellata'' (Brewin, 1946) * '' Pyura capensis'' (Hartmeyer) * ''

Pyura carnea ''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. Speci ...

'' (Brewin, 1948) * ''

'' (Molina, 1782) * ''

Pyura columna ''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. Species ...

'' (Monniot & Monniot, 1991) * ''

Pyura comma ''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. Speci ...

'' (Hartmeyer, 1906) * ''

Pyura confragosa ''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. Species ...

'' (Kott, 1985) * ''

Pyura crassacapitata ''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. Species ...

'' (Kott, 1985) * ''

Pyura crinita ''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. Species ...

'' (Michaelsen, 1922) * ''

Pyura curvigona ''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. Species ...

'' (Tokioka, 1950) * ''

Pyura dalbyi ''Pyura dalbyi'', the yellow cunjevoi, is a species of large, solitary ascidians, or sea squirts. Distribution This species has been found in several localities in Victoria, south-eastern Australia,Dalby, J.E., Jr. (1997) Dimorphism in the ascid ...

'' (Rius & Teske, 2011) 'yellow cunjevoi' * ''

Pyura discoveryi ''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. Species ...

'' (Herdman, 1910) * ''

Pyura discrepans ''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. Species ...

'' (Sluiter, 1898) * '' Pyura doppelgangera'' (Rius & Teske, 2013)Rius, M. and Teske, P.R. (2013) Cryptic diversity in coastal Australasia: a morphological and mito-nuclear genetic analysis of habitat-forming sibling species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 'doppelganger cunjevoi' * '' Pyura duplicata'' (Van Name, 1918) * '' Pyura dura'' (Heller, 1877) * '' Pyura elongata'' (Tokioka, 1952) * '' Pyura erythrostoma'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834) * '' Pyura fissa'' (Herdman, 1881) * '' Pyura gangelion'' (Savigny, 1816) * '' Pyura georgiana'' (Michaelsen, 1898) * '' Pyura gibbosa'' (Heller, 1878) * '' Pyura haustor'' (Stimpson, 1864) * '' Pyura hebridensis'' (Monniot & Monniot, 2003) * '' Pyura herdmani'' (Drasche, 1884) 'Herdman's red bait' * ''

Pyura honu ''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. Species ...

'' (Monniot & Monniot, 1987) * '' Pyura hupferi'' (Michaelsen, 1908) * '' Pyura inopinata'' (Monniot, 1978) * '' Pyura irregularis'' (Herdman, 1881) * '' Pyura isobella'' (Kott, 1985) * '' Pyura lanka'' (Herdman, 1906) * '' Pyura legumen'' (Lesson, 1830) * '' Pyura lepidoderma'' (Tokioka, 1949) * '' Pyura lignosa'' (Michaelsen, 1908) * '' Pyura littoralis'' (Kott, 1956) * '' Pyura lutea'' (Sluiter, 1900) * '' Pyura lycoperdon'' (Monniot & Monniot, 1983) * '' Pyura mariscata'' (Rodrigues, 1966) * '' Pyura microcosmus'' (Savigny, 1816) * '' Pyura mirabilis'' (Drasche, 1884) * '' Pyura molguloides'' (Herdman, 1899) * '' Pyura mozambica'' (Monniot, 2002) * '' Pyura multiruga'' (Monniot & Monniot, 1982) * '' Pyura munita'' (Van Name, 1902) * '' Pyura navicula'' (Kott, 1985) * '' Pyura obesa'' (Hartmeyer, 1919) * '' Pyura ostreophila'' (Hartmeyer & Michaelsen, 1928) * ''

Pyura pachydermatina ''Pyura pachydermatina'' is a sea tulip, a solitary species of tunicate in the suborder Stolidobranchia. It is native to shallow waters around New Zealand. Description ''Pyura pachydermatina'' has a club-shaped body supported by a long stalk, bo ...

'' (Herdman, 1881) 'sea tulip' * ''

Pyura paessleri ''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. Species ...

'' (Michaelsen, 1900) * '' Pyura pantex'' (Savigny, 1816) * '' Pyura pennata'' (Monniot & Monniot, 1991) * '' Pyura picta'' (Brewin, 1950) * '' Pyura pilosa'' Monniot & Monniot, 1974) * '' Pyura polycarpa'' (Sluiter, 1904) * ''

Pyura praeputialis ''Pyura praeputialis'' is an intertidal and shallow water species of tunicate. It is one of three species of "wikt:cunjevoi, cunjevoi" in Australasia (the other two being the yellow cunjevoi Pyura dalbyi, ''P. dalbyi'' and the doppelganger cunjev ...

'' (Heller, 1878) 'cunjevoi' * '' Pyura praia'' (Monniot & Monniot, 1967) * '' Pyura pulla'' (Sluiter, 1900) * '' Pyura rapaformis'' (Kott, 1990) * '' Pyura robusta'' (Hartmeyer, 1922) * '' Pyura rugata'' (Brewin, 1948) * '' Pyura sacciformis'' (Drasche, 1884) * '' Pyura sansibarica'' (Michaelsen, 1908) * '' Pyura scortea'' (Kott, 1985) * '' Pyura setosa'' (Sluiter, 1905) * '' Pyura shiinoi'' (Tokioka, 1949) * ''

Pyura spinifera ''Pyura spinifera'', commonly called the sea tulip, is a species of sessile ascidian that lives in coastal waters at depths of up to 80 m (260 feet). As with almost all other ascidians, sea tulips are filter feeders. The common name co ...

'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) 'sea tulip' * '' Pyura spinosa'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) * '' Pyura spinosissima'' (Michaelsen, 1922) * '' Pyura squamata'' (Hartmeyer, 1911) * '' Pyura squamulosa'' (Alder, 1863) * ''

Pyura stolonifera ''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. Specie ...

'' (Heller, 1878) 'red bait' * '' Pyura stubenrauchi'' (Michaelsen, 1900) * '' Pyura styeliformis'' (Monniot & Monniot, 2001) * '' Pyura subuculata'' (Sluiter, 1900) * '' Pyura suteri'' (Michaelsen, 1908) * '' Pyura tasmanensis'' (Kott, 1985) * '' Pyura tessellata'' (Forbes, 1848) * '' Pyura torpida'' (Sluiter, 1898) * '' Pyura trigamica'' (Tokioka, 1953) * '' Pyura trita'' (Sluiter, 1900) * '' Pyura tunica'' (Kott, 1969) * '' Pyura turqueti'' (Sluiter, 1905) * '' Pyura typica'' (author unknown) * '' Pyura uatio'' (Monniot, 1991) * '' Pyura vannamei'' (Monniot, 1994) * '' Pyura viarecta'' (Kott, 1985) * '' Pyura vittata'' (Stimpson, 1852)

References

External links

Wildlife of Sydney - Sea Tulip
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3411456 Stolidobranchia Tunicate genera