Clavelina minuta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Ascidiacea
- Order
- Aplousobranchia
- Family
- Clavelinidae
- Genus
- Clavelina
- Species
- Clavelina minuta
- Scientific Name
- Clavelina minuta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Clavelina minuta
Clavelina minuta is a species of sea squirt found in Japan, that has been demonstrated to produce an intrinsic (non-secreted) green bioluminescence of 535 nm. Notably, this bioluminescence is not thought to be due to bacterial symbionts. Clavelina minuta is currently the only sea squirt (Ascidiacea) known to produce light, however old reports also report luminescence in Botryllus and Ciona. Amongst other tunicates, the unrelated Pyrosoma and Appendicularia (e.g. genus Oikopleura), which produce an intrinsic blue light, are bioluminescent, and genera Doliolum (Doliolidae) and Cyclosalpa (Salpidae) may also be bioluminescent.
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Sibling Taxa
- Clavelina amplexa
- Clavelina arafurensis
- Clavelina auracea
- Clavelina australis
- Clavelina baudinensis
- Clavelina borealis
- Clavelina brasiliensis
- Clavelina breve
- Clavelina coerulea
- Clavelina concrescens
- Clavelina cyclus
- Clavelina cylindrica
- Clavelina dagysa
- Clavelina dellavallei
- Clavelina detorta
- Clavelina elegans
- Clavelina enormis
- Clavelina fasciculata
- Clavelina fecunda
- Clavelina gemmae
- Clavelina huntsmani
- Clavelina kottae
- Clavelina lepadiformis
- Clavelina maculata
- Clavelina meridionalis
- Clavelina michaelseni
- Clavelina miniata
- Clavelina minuta
- Clavelina mirabilis
- Clavelina moluccensis
- Clavelina neapolitana
- Clavelina nigra
- Clavelina obesa
- Clavelina oblonga
- Clavelina oliva
- Clavelina ostrearium
- Clavelina picta
- Clavelina polycitorella
- Clavelina pseudobaudinensis
- Clavelina puertosecensis
- Clavelina robusta
- Clavelina sabbadini
- Clavelina simplex
- Clavelina steenbrasensis
- Clavelina viola