User:Renhin/Styelidae

= Polyandrocarpa = Polyandrocarpa is a genus of ascidian tunicates w within the family Styelidae.

Taxonomy

 * Kingdom: Animalia
 * Phylum: Chordata
 * Subphylum: Tunicata
 * Class: Ascidiacea
 * Order: Stolidobranchia
 * Family: Styelida

Taxonomy
The order Stolidobranchia contains three families: Molgulidae, Pyuridae, and Styelidae.

Styelidae contain both colonial and solitary species, and a number of these species have intermediate morphologies. For example, certain social species within the Styelidae family reproduce clonally, and others grow in large clusters that resemble social colonies; some species brood larvae, and others are solitary, free-spawning species; and some species within Styelidae exhibit direct development.

Habitat and Distribution
Description.

Species
A new species, Polyandrocarpa arianae, was