Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pyura haustor
Tunicado, Tunicate
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Ascidiacea
Order
Stolidobranchia
Family
Pyuridae
Genus
Pyura
Species
haustor
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cynthia erecta Ritter, 1900, Cynthia haustor Stimpson, 1864, Cynthia macrosiphonus Ritter, 1900, Halocynthia haustor (Stimpson, 1864), Halocynthia johnsoni Ritter, 1909, Halocynthia washingtonia Ritter, 1913 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Cryptogenic
Distribution: East north Pacific, South Pacific Ocean and Galapagos Island (Horton et al., 2021).
- Carlton, J. T. Keith, I., & Ruiz, G. M. (2019) Assessing marine bioinvasions in the Galápagos islands: Implications for conservation biology and marine protected areas. Aquatic Invasions, 14(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2019.14.1.01
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Lambert, G. (2019) Fouling ascidians (Chordata: Ascidiacea) of the Galápagos: Santa Cruz and Baltra Islands Aquatic Invasion, Volume 14, Issue 1: 132–149
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