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Tunicata
Rango fossile:
Cambrian presente,
500–0 Ma[1][2] (forsan Ediacaran, 557 Ma[3][4])
Polycarpa aurata
Classification scientific
Regno: Animalia
Phylo: Chordata
(sin rango) Olfactores
Subphylo
Tunicata
Lamarck, 1816[5]
Synonymia
  • Urochordata Lankester, 1877
Classes e generes fossile:

Tunicata es un subphylo de Chordata Olfactores.

Tunicates son marin animales invertebrate. Pote haber un modo de vita pelagic o sessile epibenthic (in le caso del adulte ascidianes). Alcun tunicates son solitari, altere se replica per gemmation e forma colonias de zoides. Lor mobile larvas ha un notochorda e resimila un larva de rana.

Tunicates son characterisate per lor "tunica" (unic copertura externe), un cuticula constituite de proteinas e complex carbohydratos (cuje tunicina, un typo de cellulosa). In alcun species, tunica es tenue, translucido e gelatinose; in altere es spisse e rigide. Al contrario de altere exoskeleto, le tunica pote crescer con le animal.

Le studio del phylogenia molecular monstra que le previe classe del Ascidiacea non es monophyletic. Le cladogramma actualisate es le sequente[6][1]:

Tunicata

 Appendicularia




Stolidobranchia 

Molgulidae




Styelidae



Pyuridae






Thaliacea

Doliolida



Salpida



 Enterogona 

Phlebobranchia



Aplousobranchia






Referentias

  1. 1 2 Karma Nanglu, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, James C. Weaver, Javier Ortega-Hernández (6 de junio 2023). A mid-Cambrian tunicate and the deep origin of the ascidiacean body plan (in anglese). Nature communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39012-4.
  2. Geochronological constraint on the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China (in anglese) (31 de januario 2018). Journal of the Geological Society 175 (4): 659–666. doi:10.1144/jgs2017-103. ISSN 0016-7649. Bibcode: 2018JGSoc.175..659Y.
  3. A new metazoan from the Vendian of the White Sea, Russia, with possible affinities to the ascidians (2012). Paleontological Journal 46: 1–11. doi:10.1134/S0031030112010042.
  4. New Ediacaran fossils from the Ukraine, some with a putative tunicate relationship (in anglese) (1 de decembre 2021). PalZ 95 (4): 623–639. doi:10.1007/s12542-021-00596-1. ISSN 1867-6812.
  5. Nielsen, C. (31 de januario 2012). The authorship of higher chordate taxa. Zoologica Scripta 41 (4): 435–436. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00536.x.
  6. 1 2 Giribet, Gonzalo (27 de april 2018). Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives. BMC Biology 16 (1): 49. doi:10.1186/s12915-018-0517-4. ISSN 1741-7007. PMID: 29703197.