Pleurogona

Taxobox
name = Pleurogona

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Botrylloides leachi
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Urochordata
classis = Ascidiacea
ordo = Pleurogona
subdivision_ranks = Suborders and families
subdivision = Suborder Stolidobranchia
* Pyuridae
* Family Styelidae :* Genus "Eusynstyela":* Genus "Styela"
* Family Botryllidae:* Genus "Botrylloides":* Genus "Botryllus"

Pleurogona is an order of tunicates. One of the more invasive species of this order is the "stalked (or leathery or solitary) sea squirt" "Styela clava" [cite web |url=http://www.marine.csiro.au/crimp/nimpis/spsummary.asp?txa=6836 |publisher=CSIRO |title=Leathery sea squirt "Styela clava" Herdman, 1881 |date=2006-12-07] [cite web |url=http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doee/biota/inverts/tuni/as.htm |title=Asian stalked sea squirt, Pacific rough sea squirt ("Styela clava") |publisher=University of Rhode Island] [cite web |url=http://www.niwascience.co.nz/ncabb/tools/sea_squirt |title=Invasive sea squirt ("Styela clava") fact sheet |publisher=NIWA Science] . Another invasive genus include the "chain sea squirts or chain tunicates" of the genus "Botrylloides" [cite web |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/tunicata.php?menuentry=soorten&id=20 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea: "Botrylloides leachi" |author=M.J. de Kluijver & S.S. Ingalsuo |publisher=University of Amsterdam] [cite web |url=http://www.exoticsguide.org/species_pages/b_violaceus.html |title=Guide to the Exotic Species of San Francisco Bay: "Botrylloides violaceus" Oka, 1927 |date=2005-06-07 |author=Andrew N. Cohen |publisher=San Francisco Estuary Institute] and the "golden star tunicate" "Botryllus schlosseri" [cite web |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/tunicata.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=21 |title=Macrobenthos of the North Sea: "Botrylloides schlosseri" |author=M.J. de Kluijver & S.S. Ingalsuo |publisher=University of Amsterdam] .

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