Botryllus elegans (original) (raw)
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Species of sea squirt
| Botryllus elegans | |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Tunicata |
| Class: | Ascidiacea |
| Order: | Stolidobranchia |
| Family: | Styelidae |
| Genus: | Botryllus |
| Species: | B. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Botryllus elegans(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
| Chorizocarpa elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Distomus elegans Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 |
Botryllus elegans is a species of colonial ascidian tunicates in the family Styelidae. It is found in Mozambique and South Africa.
- ^ Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-29, sous le commandement de MJ Dumond d'Urville. Zoologie. JRC Quoy, JP Gaimard - Mollusca, 1834
- South African Ascidians. Monniot C., Monniot F., Griffiths C. L. and Schleyer M., 2001, Annals of the South African Museum, 108(1), pages 1–141.