Species under Ascidia
n= 106
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Ascidia ahodori
Oka, 1927
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia alterna
Monniot & Monniot, 1991
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia archaia
Sluiter, 1890
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea 2
Ascidia arenosa
Sluiter, 1898
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia armata
Hartmeyer, 1906
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia austera
Sluiter, 1904
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia aximensis
Millar, 1953
Eastern Atlantic and Western Central Pacific
Ascidia azurea
Monniot & Monniot, 1996
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia bathybia
Hartmeyer, 1912
Antarctic, Eastern Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Ascidia bifissa
Sluiter, 1890
Indo-Pacific
Ascidia caguayensis
Millar & Goodbody, 1974
Western Central Atlantic
Ascidia californica
Ritter & Forsyth, 1917
Eastern Central Pacific
Ascidia callosa
Stimpson, 1852
Sea blister Northern Atlantic, Northern Pacific, and the Arctic 2.9
Ascidia canaliculata
Heller, 1878
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia cannelata
Oken, 1820
Mediterranean Sea
Ascidia capillata
Sluiter, 1887
Indo-West Pacific
Ascidia caudata
Heller, 1878
Southeast Atlantic
Ascidia celtica
Monniot, 1969
Northeast Atlantic
Ascidia ceratodes
(Huntsman, 1912)
California sea squirt Eastern Pacific
Ascidia challengeri
Herdman, 1882
Southeast Atlantic, Indo-Pacific and the Antarctic
Ascidia clementea
Ritter, 1907
Arctic and Pacific Ocean 6
Ascidia columbiana
(Huntsman, 1912)
Sea blisters North Pacific. Climate 5
Ascidia compta
Sluiter, 1898
Southeast Atlantic
Ascidia conchilega
Müller, 1776
Atlantic and the Mediterranean 6
Ascidia correi
Monniot, 1970
Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea
Ascidia curvata
(Traustedt, 1882)
Western Atlantic 5
Ascidia decepta
Kott, 1985
Indo-West Pacific
Ascidia despecta
Herdman, 1880
Antarctic Indian Ocean
Ascidia dijmphniana
Templeton, 1834
Northern Atlantic and the Arctic
Ascidia empheres
Sluiter, 1895
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia escabanae
Monniot, 1998
Eastern Central Pacific
Ascidia fictile
Monniot, 1997
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia fistulosa
Tokioka, 1967
Pacific Ocean
Ascidia formella
Monniot, 1998
Eastern Central Pacific
Ascidia fusca
Monniot & Monniot, 1989
Southeast Pacific
Ascidia gemmata
Sluiter, 1895
Indo-West Pacific 4
Ascidia glabra
Hartmeyer, 1922
Indo-West Pacific
Ascidia iberica
Monniot & Monniot, 1988
Atlantic Ocean
Ascidia incrassata
Heller, 1878
Red spotted ascidian Southeast Atlantic, Western Indian Ocean and the Antarctic
Ascidia interrupta
Heller, 1878
Eastern Central Pacific and Atlantic Ocean 10
Ascidia involuta
Heller, 1875
Atlantic and the Mediterranean 10
Ascidia julinea
Sluiter,
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia kreagra
Sluiter, 1895
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia krechi
Michaelsen, 1904
Southeast Atlantic
Ascidia kuneides
Sluiter, 1887
Indo-Pacific
Ascidia lagena
Michaelsen, 1922
Southwest Pacific
Ascidia latesiphonica
Hartmeyer, 1922
Indo-West Pacific
Ascidia liberata
Sluiter, 1887
Western Pacific
Ascidia limpida
Sluiter, 1904
Indo-Pacific
Ascidia lobata
Xiuming, 1989
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia longistriata
Hartmeyer, 1906
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia macropapilla
Millar, 1982
Southwest Pacific
Ascidia malaca
Traustedt, 1883
Cosmopolitan
Ascidia matoya
Tokioka, 1949
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia mediterranean
Pérès, 1959
Northeast Atlantic
Ascidia melanostoma
Sluiter, 1885
Central Pacific
Ascidia mentula
Müller, 1776
Northeast Atlantic, Antarctic Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Sea 18
Ascidia meridionalis
Herdman, 1880
Antarctic Atlantic and Southeast Pacific
Ascidia molguloides
Monniot, 1975
Northeast Atlantic
Ascidia multitentaculata
Hartmeyer, 1912
Southeast Atlantic
Ascidia munda
Sluiter, 1898
Indo-West Pacific
Ascidia muricata
Heller, 1874
Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Ascidia nerea
Kott, 1985
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia nigra
(Savigny, 1816)
Atlantic Ocean and Western Indian Ocean 25
Ascidia obliqua
Alder, 1863
Northeast Atlantic, Western Pacific, and the Arctic 8
Ascidia obocki
Sluiter, 1905
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia occidentalis
Kott, 1985
Eastern Indian Ocean
Ascidia ornata
Monniot, & Monniot, 2001
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia pacifica
unspecified
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia papillosa
Tokioka, 1967
Northwest Pacific
Ascidia parasamea
Kott, 1985
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia paratropa
(Huntsman, 1912)
Glassy tunicate Eastern Pacific 15
Ascidia perfluxa
Sluiter, 1904
Central Indo-Pacific
Ascidia placenta
Herdman, 1880
Antarctic Indian Ocean
Ascidia polytrema
Sluiter, 1904
Indo-West Pacific
Ascidia prolata
Kott, 1985
Eastern Indian Ocean
Ascidia prona
Monniot & Monniot, 1994
Eastern Central Atlantic
Ascidia prunum
Müller, 1776
Plum-like ascidia Northern Atlantic, Pacific Ocean and the Arctic
Ascidia pygmaea
Michaelsen, 1918
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia recifensis
Millar, 1977
Southwest Atlantic
Ascidia retinens
Monniot, 1984
Antarctic Indian Ocean
Ascidia retrosipho
Millar, 1988
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia salvatoris
(Traustedt, 1885)
Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Ascidia samea
Oka, 1935
Pacific Ocean
Ascidia santosi
Millar, 1958
Southwest Atlantic
Ascidia scaevola
(Sluiter, 1904)
Indo-West Pacific
Ascidia somalensis
Sluiter, 1905
Western Indian Ocean
Ascidia spinosa
Sluiter, 1904
Indo-Pacific and the Southern Ocean
Ascidia stenodes
Millar, 1962
Southeast Atlantic
Ascidia stewartensis
Millar, 1982
Southwest Pacific
Ascidia sulca
Monniot, 1991
Western Central Pacific
Ascidia sydneiensis
Stimpson, 1855
Yellow-green sea squirt Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Ocean 30
Ascidia tapuni
Monniot & Monniot, 1987
Pacific Ocean 2
Ascidia tenue
Monniot, 1983
Western Central Atlantic
Ascidia thompsoni
Kott, 1952
Eastern Indian Ocean
Ascidia translucida
Herdman, 1883
Indo-West Pacific and the Antarctic
Ascidia tricuspis
Sluiter, 1904
Indo-Pacific
Ascidia tritonis
Herdman, 1883
Eastern Atlantic
Ascidia unalaskensis
(Ritter, 1913)
Arctic and Northwest Pacific
Ascidia urnalia
Monniot, 1994
Indian Ocean
Ascidia vermiformis
(Ritter, 1913)
Pacific Ocean
Ascidia virginea
Müller, 1776
Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Ascidia willeyi
Oka, 1915
Indian Ocean
Ascidia xamaycana
Millar & Goodbody, 1974
Western Central Atlantic
Ascidia zara
Oka, 1935
Pacific Ocean 5
Ascidia zyogasima
Tokioka, 1963
Northwest Pacific
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