Genus: Metandrocarpa
Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa
(animals) >
Bilateria > Deuterostomia >
Chordata > Tunicata >
Ascidiacea (sea squirts) > Stolidobranchia > Family:
Styelidae
A total of 15 species
worldwide, with two species native to southern African seas.
Species native to southern Africa
Information from Monniot et al. (2001)
and World
Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).
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Metandrocarpa asymmetra
Recorded from Oudekraal, Cape Peninsula, at a depth of 10 m. |
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Metandrocarpa fascicularis
Recorded 8 miles off Cape St. Blaize (Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South
Africa) at a depth of 72 m. |
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Publications
- Monniot C, Monniot F and Griffiths CL. 2001. South African
ascidians. Annals of the South African Museum 108(1): 1-141.
Text by Hamish Robertson |
