Botryllus
Encyclopedia
Botryllus is a genus
of colonial
ascidian
tunicate
s in the family
Botryllidae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of colonial
Colony (biology)
In biology, a colony reference to several individual organisms of the same species living closely together, usually for mutual benefit, such as stronger defense or the ability to attack bigger prey. Some insects live only in colonies...
ascidian
Ascidiacea
Ascidiacea is a class in the Tunicata subphylum of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. Ascidians are characterized by a tough outer "tunic" made of the polysaccharide tunicin, as compared to other tunicates which are less rigid.Ascidians are found all over the world, usually in shallow...
tunicate
Tunicate
Tunicates, also known as urochordates, are members of the subphylum Tunicata, previously known as Urochordata, a group of underwater saclike filter feeders with incurrent and excurrent siphons that is classified within the phylum Chordata. While most tunicates live on the ocean floor, others such...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Botryllidae.
Species
Species in this genus include:- Botryllus anceps (Herdman, 1891)
- Botryllus arenaceus (Monniot, 1988)
- Botryllus aster (Monniot, 1991)
- Botryllus closionis (Monniot, Monniot, Griffiths & Schleyer, 2001)
- Botryllus compositus (Tokioka, 1967)
- Botryllus delicatus (Okuyama & Saito, 2001)
- Botryllus eilatensis (Shenkar & Monniot, 2006)
- Botryllus elegans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Botryllus firmus (Monniot & Monniot, 1996)
- Botryllus gracilis (MichaelsenWilhelm MichaelsenWilhelm Michaelsen was a German zoologist. His principal contributions were to the study of Oligochaeta.After finishing high school he studied mechanical engineering...
, 1927) - Botryllus gregalis (Sluiter, 1898)
- Botryllus horridus (Saito & Okuyama, 2003)
- Botryllus humilis (0Monniot, 1988
- Botryllus japonicus (Oka, 1931)
- Botryllus leachii (Savigny, 1816)
- Botryllus maeandrius (Sluiter, 1898)
- Botryllus magnus (Ritter, 1901)
- Botryllus mortenseni (Millar, 1964)
- Botryllus niger (Herdman, 1886)
- Botryllus ovalis (Monniot, 1988)
- Botryllus perspicuum (Herdman, 1886)
- Botryllus planus (Van Name, 1902)
- Botryllus primigenus (Oka, 1928)
- Botryllus promiscuus (Okuyama & Saito, 2002)
- Botryllus puniceus (Saito & Nagasawa, 2003)
- Botryllus scalaris (Saito & Mukai, 1981)
- Botryllus schlosseriBotryllus schlosseriBotryllus schlosseri, commonly known as the star ascidian or golden star tunicate, is an invasive, colonial ascidian tunicate that grows on slow-moving, submerged objects, plants, and animals in nearshore saltwater environments....
(Pallas, 1766) - Botryllus separatus (Sluiter, 1904)
- Botryllus sexiensis (Saito & Watanabe, 1981)
- Botryllus stewartensis (Brewin, 1958)
- Botryllus stuhlmanni (Michaelsen, 1918)
- Botryllus tabori (Rodrigues, 1962)
- Botryllus tuberatus (Ritter & Forsyth, 1917)