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An annotated checklist of Thaliaceans (Chordata: Tunicates)

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A checklist of the Class Thaliacea is presented after an extensive literature review. Synonymies, type locality, diagnostic characters of different life cycle stages and a summary of worldwide distribution are presented for the maximum number of available species possible. A total of 106 species names are listed, and among them, 81 species in 25 genera and 2 subgenera are treated as valid while the other 25 are treated as species inquirendum. An additional 184 names are treated as synonymies of 52 species. Among the 81 valid thaliacean species, 17 belong to the Doliolidae family, 3 to the Doliopsoididae, 1 to the Doliolunidae, 3 to the Doliopsidae, 1 to the Paradoliopsidae, 48 to the Salpidae and 8 to the family Pyrosomatidae.

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The authors are grateful to the Director, Dr. Kailash Chandra, Zoological Survey of India, HQ, Kolkata, for the facilities provided to undertaken this work. I express my sincere thanks to Dr. Basudev Tripathy, Co-principal Investigator of the IndOBIS project, Dr. C. H. Satyanarayana, Dr. S.S. Misra and the officer-in-charge of the library for their help. I also express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Sheela S for her timely help on the taxonomic corrections to improve the manuscript and the constructive comments of the reviewers which have considerably improved this manuscript. We are grateful to the MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences), CMLRE, Govt. of India, for the funding support of the Project Marine faunal diversity along the Orissa coast under Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System (IndOBIS).

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Purushothaman, J., Hansda, S., Dey, J. et al. An annotated checklist of Thaliaceans (Chordata: Tunicates). Mar Biodiv 48, 1903–1930 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0698-z

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