Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Stolidobranchia

Styelidae Herdman, 1881

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Alloeocarpa Michaelsen, 1900
Asterocarpa Brewin, 1946
Bathyoncus Herdman, 1882
Bathystyeloides Seeliger, 1907
Botrylloides Milne Edwards, 1841
Botryllus Gaertner, 1774
Cnemidocarpa Huntsman, 1913
Dendrodoa MacLeay, 1824
Dicarpa Millar, 1955
Distomus Gaertner, 1774
Eusynstyela Michaelsen, 1904
Kukenthalia Hartmeyer, 1903
Pelonaia Forbes & Goodsir, 1841
Polyandrocarpa Michaelsen, 1904
Polycarpa Heller, 1877
Polyzoa Lesson, 1831
Protostyela Millar, 1954
Psammostyela Weinstein, 1961
Seriocarpa Diehl, 1969
Stolonica Lacaze-Duthiers & Délage, 1892
Styela Fleming, 1822
Tibitin Monniot C., 1983

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: シロボヤ科

Literature

original description	Herdman, W. A. (1881). Preliminary report on the Tunicata of the Challenger expedition. Cynthiidae. Proceeding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 11(3): 52-88.
basis of record	Sanamyan, K. (2007). Database of extant Ascidiacea. Version of 2 November 2007.
additional source	Monniot, C. (2001). Ascidiacea & Sorberacea. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 352-355.
additional source	Sluiter, C. P. (1895). Tunicaten. In: Semon, R., Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und den malagischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. 8: 163-186.
additional source	Zeng, L.; Jacobs, M. W.; Swalla, B. J. (2006). Coloniality has evolved once in Stolidobranch Ascidians. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46(3): 255-268.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Styelidae Herdman, 1881. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103450