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Urochordata 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 158853

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subphylum  
  Synonym(s): Tunicata
 
  Common Name(s): urocordado [Portuguese]
  
    tunicates [English]
  
    sea squirts [English]
  
    salps [English]
  
    ascidies [French]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2016   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumUrochordata  – urocordado, tunicates, sea squirts, salps, ascidies  
    Direct Children:  
                Class Appendicularia  – pelagic tunicates, apendiculária, oicopleura, oikopleura 
                Class Ascidiacea  – ascidians, sessile tunicates, ascídia, ascidies, tuniqués sessiles 
                Class Thaliacea  – pelagic tunicates, doliolum, salpa, taliáceo 
       

 References
       
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  Source: CRIA-Brazil, website (version 2002)  
  Acquired: 2003   
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  Reference for: urocordado[Portuguese]   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Urochordata   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., Wendy Moore, and Stephen M. Schuster  
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 27: Phylum Chordata: Cephalochordata and Urochordata   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Third Edition   
  Page(s): 1021-1046   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-1605353753   
  Notes: Section on Urochordata revised by C. Sarah Cohen   
  Reference for: Urochordata   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2015   
  Article/Chapter Title: Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: PLoS ONE vol. 10, no. 6, e0130114   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1932-6203   
  Notes: Available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130114#sec001 ; Full authorship: Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, T. Cavalier-Smith, M. D. Guiry, and P. M. Kirk   
  Reference for: Urochordata   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wells, A., and W. W. K. Houston, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zoological Catalogue of Australia, vol. 34   
  Page(s): xiii + 298   
  Publisher: CSIRO   
  Publication Place: Melbourne, Australia   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-643-06036-7   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Urochordata   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Ruggiero et al. (2015) and Cohen in Brusca et al. (2016) use Urochordata rather than Tunicata, although both terms are in use  
 

 

    

 
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