Didemnidae

Didemnum candidum, copyright marine_p.

Belongs within: Enterogona.

The Didemnidae are a group of tunicates whose small zooids form encrusting colonies.

<==Didemnidae
    |--Lissoclinum maculatum Kott 2001 MG-H11
    |--Atriolum MG-H11
    |    |--A. bucinum Kott 2001 MG-H11
    |    `--A. tubiporum Kott 2001 MG-H11
    |--Trididemnum MG-H11
    |    |--T. grandistellatum Kott 2008 MG-H11
    |    `--T. sibogae (Hartmeyer 1910) MG-H11
    |--Leptoclinides MG-H11
    |    |--L. fungiformis Kott 1972 MG-H11
    |    |--L. multilobatus Kott 1954 MG-H11
    |    `--L. vesica Kott 2008 MG-H11
    |--Polysyncraton MG-H11
    |    |--P. calculum Kott 2008 MG-H11
    |    |--P. dealbatum Kott 2008 MG-H11
    |    |--P. fistulum Kott 2008 MG-H11
    |    |--P. millepore Vaseur 1969 MG-H11
    |    |--P. palliolum Kott 2001 MG-H11
    |    |--P. pavimentum Monniot 1993 MG-H11
    |    `--P. solidum MG-H11
    `--Didemnum MG-H11
         |--D. candidum Savigny 1816 MG-H11
         |--D. cygnus Kott 2001 MG-H11
         |--D. dolium Kott 2008 MG-H11
         |--D. jedanense Sluiter 1909 MG-H11
         |--D. moseleyi (Herdman 1886) MG-H11
         |--D. multiampullae Kott 2008 MG-H11
         |--D. ossium Kott 2001 MG-H11
         |--D. perplexum Kott 2001 MG-H11
         |--D. plebeium Kott 2005 MG-H11
         |--D. tapetum Kott 2008 MG-H11
         `--D. velum Kott 2008 MG-H11

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[MG-H11] McEnnulty, F. R., K. L. Gowlett-Holmes, A. Williams, F. Althaus, J. Fromont, G. C. B. Poore, T. D. O’Hara, L. Marsh, P. Kott, S. Slack-Smith, P. Alderslade & M. V. Kitahara. 2011. The deepwater megabenthic invertebrates on the western continental margin of Australia (100–1100 m depths): composition, distribution and novelty. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 80: 1-191.