Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Thaliacea > Order Pyrosomatida > Family Pyrosomatidae > Subfamily Pyrosomatinae > Genus Pyrosoma

Pyrosoma atlanticum Péron, 1804

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pyrosoma*	Péron, 1804	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pyrosoma benthica*	Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1966	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Atlantic pyrosomes sources: Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.

Japanese: ヒカリボヤ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Russian: Атлантическая пиросома

Literature

original description	Péron, F. 1804. Mémoire sur le nouveau genre Pyrosoma. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 4 (12): 437-446.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A monograph of the order Pyrosomatida (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Journal of Plankton Research. 3 (4): 603-631.
additional source	Kott, P.; Bradford-Grieve, J.; Esnal, G.; Murdoch, R.C. (2009). Phylum Tunicata: sea squirts, salps, appendicularians, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 409-430.
additional source	Lilly, L. E.; Suthers, I. M.; Everett, J. D.; Richardson, A. J. (2023). A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”. Limnology and Oceanography Letters.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Cole, L. and G. Lambert. 2009. Tunicata (Urochordata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1209–1216 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Xiang, P.; Bai, X.; Xing, B.; Li, J.; Zhang, C.; Li, M. (2024). Full-length transcriptome annotation of a pyrosome, Pyrosoma atlanticum (Chordata, Thaliacea). Scientific Data. 11(1).
additional source	van der Land, J.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Thaliacea, 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. 355-356
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Garic, R.; Madin, L.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). World List of Thaliacea. Pyrosoma atlanticum Péron, 1804. 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:137250