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  Phylum Chordata

Subphylum Urochordata (+ Tunicata)

Taxon Information

The Subphylum Urochordata is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Tunicata, "2,792 species" (Zhang, 2011).
• Urochordata, [3,000 described species] (Brusca & Brusca, 2003).

Bibliography

• Zhang, Z.-Q. 2011. Animal biodiversity: An introduction to higher-level classification and taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 7-12. [Available online]
• Brusca, R.C. & G.J. Brusca. 2003. Invertebrates, 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. 936 pp.