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

Polycarpa gracilis Heller, 1877

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polycarpa*	Heller, 1877	accepted genus name
*Glandula*	Stimpson, 1852	synonym

Literature

original description	Heller, C. (1877). Untersuchungen über die Tunicaten des Adriatischen und Mittelmeeres. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien. 37: 241-275, plates I-VII.
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	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
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	Vazquez, E.; Ramos-Elspa, A. A.; Turon, X. (1995). The genus Polycarpa (Ascidiacea, Styelidae) on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of the Iberian Peninsula. J. Zool., Lond. 237: 593-614.

Genbank

Citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Polycarpa gracilis Heller, 1877. 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:103903