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Family: Polycitoridae (See list of species below)

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164 species with fin ray counts including ? spines in dorsal and ? in anal fins (see list below)

No picture found Archidistoma aggregatum []	No picture found Archidistoma diaphanes []	No picture found Archidistoma dublum []
No picture found Archidistoma productum []	No picture found Archidistoma psammion []	No picture found Brevicollus tuberatus [Colony tunicate]
No picture found Citorclinum laboutei []	No picture found Cystodytes antarcticus []	No picture found Cystodytes dellechiajei []
No picture found Cystodytes durus []	No picture found Cystodytes fuscus []	No picture found Cystodytes guinensis []
No picture found Cystodytes lobatus [Lobed tunicate]	No picture found Cystodytes luteus []	No picture found Cystodytes morifer []
No picture found Cystodytes mucosus []	No picture found Cystodytes multipapillatus []	No picture found Cystodytes philippinensis []
No picture found Cystodytes planus []	No picture found Cystodytes punctatus []	No picture found Cystodytes ramosus []
No picture found Cystodytes roseolus []	No picture found Cystodytes senegalense []	No picture found Cystodytes solitus []
No picture found Cystodytes tunisiensis []	No picture found Cystodytes violatinctus []	No picture found Eucoelium coronaria []
No picture found Eucoelium mariae []	No picture found Eucoelium orientalis []	No picture found Eucoelium pallida []
No picture found Eucoelium peresi []	No picture found Eucoelium setoensis []	No picture found Eucoelium stellifera []
No picture found Eudistoma albatrossae []	No picture found Eudistoma album []	No picture found Eudistoma amploides []
No picture found Eudistoma amplum []	No picture found Eudistoma anaematum []	No picture found Eudistoma angolanum []
No picture found Eudistoma atrum []	No picture found Eudistoma atypicum []	No picture found Eudistoma aureum []
No picture found Eudistoma austerum []	No picture found Eudistoma australe []	No picture found Eudistoma banyulense []
No picture found Eudistoma bifurcum []	No picture found Eudistoma bituminis []	No picture found Eudistoma bulbatum []
No picture found Eudistoma caeruleum []	No picture found Eudistoma capsulatum []	No picture found Eudistoma carnosum []
No picture found Eudistoma carolinense []	No picture found Eudistoma clarum []	No picture found Eudistoma constrictum []
No picture found Eudistoma costai []	No picture found Eudistoma eboreum []	No picture found Eudistoma elongatum []
No picture found Eudistoma fasciculum []	No picture found Eudistoma fluorescens []	No picture found Eudistoma fragum []
No picture found Eudistoma fucatum []	No picture found Eudistoma fusca []	No picture found Eudistoma gilboviride []
No picture found Eudistoma glaucum []	No picture found Eudistoma globosum []	No picture found Eudistoma gracilum []
Eudistoma hepaticum []	No picture found Eudistoma hospitale []	No picture found Eudistoma illotum []
No picture found Eudistoma inauratum []	No picture found Eudistoma incrustatum []	No picture found Eudistoma incubitum []
No picture found Eudistoma kauderni []	No picture found Eudistoma kaverium []	No picture found Eudistoma kurilense []
No picture found Eudistoma laboutei []	No picture found Eudistoma lakshmiani []	No picture found Eudistoma laysani []
No picture found Eudistoma maculosum []	No picture found Eudistoma magalhaensis []	No picture found Eudistoma magnum []
No picture found Eudistoma malum []	No picture found Eudistoma marianense []	No picture found Eudistoma mexicanum []
No picture found Eudistoma microlarvum []	No picture found Eudistoma mobiusi []	No picture found Eudistoma modestum []
No picture found Eudistoma molle [Red-dotted compound tunicate]	No picture found Eudistoma mucosum []	No picture found Eudistoma murrayi []
No picture found Eudistoma niveum []	No picture found Eudistoma obscuratum []	No picture found Eudistoma occultum []
No picture found Eudistoma olivaceum []	No picture found Eudistoma one []	No picture found Eudistoma ovatum []
No picture found Eudistoma pachecae []	No picture found Eudistoma paesslerioides []	No picture found Eudistoma parva []
No picture found Eudistoma planum []	No picture found Eudistoma platense []	No picture found Eudistoma plumbeum []
No picture found Eudistoma pluritestae []	No picture found Eudistoma posidonarium []	No picture found Eudistoma pratulum []
No picture found Eudistoma punctatum []	No picture found Eudistoma purpureum []	No picture found Eudistoma purpuropunctatum []
No picture found Eudistoma pyriforme []	No picture found Eudistoma recifense []	Eudistoma reginum []
No picture found Eudistoma renieri []	No picture found Eudistoma repens []	No picture found Eudistoma rhodopyge []
No picture found Eudistoma ritteri []	No picture found Eudistoma roseum []	No picture found Eudistoma rubiginosum []
No picture found Eudistoma rubra []	No picture found Eudistoma rubrum []	No picture found Eudistoma sabulosum []
No picture found Eudistoma saldanhai []	No picture found Eudistoma sluiteri []	No picture found Eudistoma spiculiferum []
No picture found Eudistoma stellatum []	No picture found Eudistoma superlatum []	No picture found Eudistoma surinamense []
No picture found Eudistoma tarponense []	No picture found Eudistoma tigrum []	No picture found Eudistoma toealense []
No picture found Eudistoma tokarac []	No picture found Eudistoma tridentatum []	No picture found Eudistoma tumidum []
No picture found Eudistoma vannamei []	No picture found Eudistoma vineum []	No picture found Eudistoma viride []
No picture found Eudistoma vitreum []	No picture found Eudistoma vulgare []	No picture found Exostoma ianthinum []
No picture found Polycitor adriaticus []	No picture found Polycitor africanus []	No picture found Polycitor annulus []
No picture found Polycitor calamus []	No picture found Polycitor cerasus []	No picture found Polycitor circes []
No picture found Polycitor columna []	No picture found Polycitor crypticus []	No picture found Polycitor crystallinus []
No picture found Polycitor cuneatus []	No picture found Polycitor emergens []	No picture found Polycitor epicolon []
No picture found Polycitor fungiformis []	No picture found Polycitor giganteus []	No picture found Polycitor nubilus []
No picture found Polycitor obeliscus []	No picture found Polycitor proliferus []	No picture found Polycitor protectans []
No picture found Polycitor searli []	No picture found Polycitor subarborensis []	No picture found Polycitor translucidus []
No picture found Rhombifera caerulea []	No picture found Salix ianthina []	No picture found Tetrazona ciemari []
No picture found Tetrazona glareosa []	No picture found Tetrazona porrecta []

164 Species of Family Polycitoridae
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Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)
Archidistoma aggregatum		Cosmopolitan.
Archidistoma diaphanes		Eastern Central Pacific
Archidistoma dublum		Western Indian Ocean
Archidistoma productum		Northeast Atlantic
Archidistoma psammion		Eastern Central Pacific
Brevicollus tuberatus	Colony tunicate	Indo-West Pacific
Citorclinum laboutei		Western Central Pacific	5 COLD
Cystodytes antarcticus		Southeast Pacific, Southw
Cystodytes dellechiajei		Circumglobal.
Cystodytes durus		Northeast Atlantic and th
Cystodytes fuscus		Western Central Pacific
Cystodytes guinensis		Eastern Atlantic
Cystodytes lobatus	Lobed tunicate	Eastern Pacific
Cystodytes luteus		Indo-West Pacific.	0.5 COLD
Cystodytes morifer		Western Indian Ocean
Cystodytes mucosus		Western Central Pacific
Cystodytes multipapillatus		Western Central Pacific
Cystodytes philippinensis		Cosmopolitan.	8 TL
Cystodytes planus		Northeast Atlantic
Cystodytes punctatus		Western Central Pacific
Cystodytes ramosus		Western Central Pacific	8 COLD
Cystodytes roseolus		Eastern Atlantic
Cystodytes senegalense		Eastern Central Atlantic
Cystodytes solitus		Indo-West Pacific.	0.5 COLD
Cystodytes tunisiensis		Mediterranean Sea.
Cystodytes violatinctus		Indo-West Pacific.	1 COLD
Eucoelium coronaria		Indo-West Pacific.	1.5 TL
Eucoelium mariae		Indo-West Pacific.	4 COLD
Eucoelium orientalis		Indo-West Pacific
Eucoelium pallida		Western Indian Ocean and	15 COLD
Eucoelium peresi		Western Indian Ocean
Eucoelium setoensis		Northwest Pacific
Eucoelium stellifera		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma albatrossae		Northwest Pacific
Eudistoma album		Western Central Pacific.
Eudistoma amploides		Northwest Pacific
Eudistoma amplum		Indo-West Pacific.
Eudistoma anaematum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma angolanum		Eastern Atlantic and Indo
Eudistoma atrum		Western Indian Ocean.
Eudistoma atypicum		Western Indian Ocean
Eudistoma aureum		Eastern Indian Ocean
Eudistoma austerum		Eastern Central Pacific
Eudistoma australe		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Eudistoma banyulense		Northeast Atlantic and th
Eudistoma bifurcum		Western Indian Ocean
Eudistoma bituminis		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma bulbatum		Southwest Pacific
Eudistoma caeruleum		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma capsulatum		Western Central Atlantic.
Eudistoma carnosum		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma carolinense		Western Atlantic.	0.55 TL
Eudistoma clarum		Atlantic Ocean
Eudistoma constrictum		Eastern Indian Ocean
Eudistoma costai		Northeast Atlantic and th
Eudistoma eboreum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma elongatum		Western Pacific
Eudistoma fasciculum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma fluorescens		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma fragum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma fucatum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma fusca		Eastern Central Pacific
Eudistoma gilboviride		Western Central Pacific.
Eudistoma glaucum		Western Central Pacific.
Eudistoma globosum		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma gracilum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma hepaticum		Western Central Atlantic.
Eudistoma hospitale		Indo-West Pacific and Sou
Eudistoma illotum		Southeast Atlantic
Eudistoma inauratum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma incrustatum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma incubitum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma kauderni		Western Indian Ocean
Eudistoma kaverium		Indian Ocean
Eudistoma kurilense		Northwest Pacific.
Eudistoma laboutei		Western Indian Ocean
Eudistoma lakshmiani		Eastern Indian Ocean
Eudistoma laysani		Indo-Pacific.
Eudistoma maculosum		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma magalhaensis		Southeast Pacific, Atlant
Eudistoma magnum		Northeast Atlantic and th
Eudistoma malum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma marianense		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma mexicanum		Eastern Central Pacific
Eudistoma microlarvum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma mobiusi		Antarctic Atlantic and In
Eudistoma modestum		Southeast Atlantic and We
Eudistoma molle	Red-dotted compound tunicate	Eastern Pacific	10 WD
Eudistoma mucosum		Northeast Atlantic and th
Eudistoma murrayi		Western Indian Ocean
Eudistoma niveum		Western Indian Ocean
Eudistoma obscuratum		Western Central Atlantic.
Eudistoma occultum		Southeast Atlantic
Eudistoma olivaceum		Atlantic Ocean and Pacifi
Eudistoma one		Southwest Pacific
Eudistoma ovatum		Indo-West Pacific.	12 WD
Eudistoma pachecae		Eastern Central Pacific
Eudistoma paesslerioides		Cosmopolitan.
Eudistoma parva		Eastern Central Pacific
Eudistoma planum		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Eudistoma platense		Southwest Atlantic
Eudistoma plumbeum		Northeast Atlantic and th
Eudistoma pluritestae		Western Indian Ocean
Eudistoma posidonarium		Northeast Atlantic and th
Eudistoma pratulum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma punctatum		Indo-West Pacific.	0.5 COLD
Eudistoma purpureum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma purpuropunctatum		Northeast Pacific
Eudistoma pyriforme		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma recifense		Southwest Atlantic
Eudistoma reginum		Indo-West Pacific.
Eudistoma renieri		Southeast Atlantic and In	1 COLD
Eudistoma repens		Southwest Atlantic
Eudistoma rhodopyge		Southeast Atlantic and In
Eudistoma ritteri		Eastern Central Pacific
Eudistoma roseum		Northeast Atlantic
Eudistoma rubiginosum		Eastern Central Pacific
Eudistoma rubra		Northwest Pacific
Eudistoma rubrum		Northeast Atlantic
Eudistoma sabulosum		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma saldanhai		Southwest Atlantic
Eudistoma sluiteri		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma spiculiferum		Southwest Atlantic
Eudistoma stellatum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma superlatum		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma surinamense		Western Central Atlantic
Eudistoma tarponense		Western Central Atlantic
Eudistoma tigrum		Indo-West Pacific
Eudistoma toealense		Indo-West Pacific.	3 TL
Eudistoma tokarac		Northwest Pacific
Eudistoma tridentatum		Northeast Atlantic and th
Eudistoma tumidum		Western Central Pacific	0.8 TL
Eudistoma vannamei		Southwest Atlantic
Eudistoma vineum		Western Central Pacific
Eudistoma viride		Western Central Pacific.
Eudistoma vitreum		Northeast Atlantic and No
Eudistoma vulgare		Western Central Pacific
Exostoma ianthinum		Western Central Pacific.
Polycitor adriaticus		Atlantic and the Mediterr
Polycitor africanus		Indo-West Pacific.
Polycitor annulus		Western Central Pacific
Polycitor calamus		Indo-West Pacific
Polycitor cerasus		Eastern Indian Ocean
Polycitor circes		Indo-West Pacific.	6 H
Polycitor columna		Eastern Indian Ocean
Polycitor crypticus		Eastern Indian Ocean
Polycitor crystallinus		Western Central Pacific,
Polycitor cuneatus		Western Indian Ocean
Polycitor emergens		Indo-West Pacific
Polycitor epicolon		Western Indian Ocean
Polycitor fungiformis		Southwest Atlantic
Polycitor giganteus		Indo-West Pacific	6 COLD
Polycitor nubilus		Eastern Indian Ocean
Polycitor obeliscus		Eastern Indian Ocean
Polycitor proliferus		Northwest Pacific
Polycitor protectans		Southwest Pacific
Polycitor searli		Northeast Atlantic
Polycitor subarborensis		Southwest Pacific
Polycitor translucidus		Indo-West Pacific.
Rhombifera caerulea		Northeast Atlantic and th
Salix ianthina		Western Central Pacific.
Tetrazona ciemari		Antarctic Atlantic
Tetrazona glareosa		Antarctic Atlantic and In
Tetrazona porrecta		Western Indian Ocean

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