Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata

Ascidiacea Blainville, 1824

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aplousobranchia Lahille, 1886
Enterogona Perrier, 1898
Phlebobranchia Lahille, 1886
Stolidobranchia Lahille, 1886

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: ascidis

Danish: søpunge

Dutch: manteldieren; zakpijpen 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: sea squirts

Finnish: meritupet

French: ascidies

German: seescheiden

Hebrew: איצטלנים

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

Polish: żachwy

Portuguese: ascídias

Spanish, Castillian: ascidias

Swedish: sjöpungar

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris.
basis of record	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	Shenkar, N.; Swalla, B. J. (2011). Global Diversity of Ascidiacea. PLoS ONE. 6(6): e20657.

Genbank

Citation

Shenkar, N.; Gittenberger, A.; Lambert, G.; Rius, M.; Moreira da Rocha, R.; Swalla, B.J.; Turon, X. (2025). Ascidiacea World Database. Ascidiacea. 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:1839