Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Ascidiacea > Order Aplousobranchia > Family Clavelinidae > Genus Clavelina

Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Ascidia Linnaeus, 1767

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clavelina*	Savigny, 1816	accepted genus name
*Bradiclavella*	Zirpolo, 1925	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: køllesøpung sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gele zakpijp sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: light bulb sesquirt; light bulb tunicate; pin-head squirt sources: MarLIN. (2006). BIOTIC - Biological Traits Information Catalogue. Marine Life Information Network. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: claveline; clochette de cristal sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Keulen-Seescheide sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Italian: ascidia cristallo

Norwegian Bokmål: langhalssekkdyr sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: langhalssekkdyr sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ascidia bombilla sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Swedish: klubbsjöpung

Literature

basis of record	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	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.
additional source	Millar, R. H. (1966). Tunicata Ascidiacea. Marine invertebrates of Scandinavia. 1. Oslo: Scandinavia University Books. 123: pp.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776). 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:103552