Pyura stolonifera (Redbait)
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Pyura stolonifera (Redbait) exposed at low tide, de Hoop Nature
Reserve, Western Cape. [photo CL Griffiths
©] |
Pyura stolonifera (Redbait) under water with siphons open. [photo
CL Griffiths
©] |
Publications (by date)
- Wardrop AB. 1970. The structure and formation of the test of
Pyura stolonifera (Tunicata). Protoplasma 70(1): 73-86.
- Day RW. 1974. An investigation of Pyura stolonifera
(Tunicata) from the Cape Peninsula. Zoologica Africana 9:35-58.
- Griffiths RJ. 1976. The larval development of Pyura
stolonifera (Tunicata). Transactions of the Royal Society of
South Africa 42(1): 1-9. DOI:10.1080/00359197609519899
- Klumpp DW. 1984. Nutritional ecology of the ascidian
Pyura stolonifera: influence of body size, food quantity and
quality on filter-feeding, respiration, assimilation efficiency
and energy balance. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 19:
269-284.
- Stuart V, Klumpp DW. 1984. Evidence for food-resource
partitioning by kelp-bed filter feeders. Marine Ecology Progress
Series 16: 27-37.
- Seiderer LJ and Newell RC. 1988. Exploitation of
phytoplankton as a food resource by the kelp bed ascidian
Pyura stolonifera. Marine Ecology Progress Series
50(1-2): 107-115.
- Fielding PJ, Weerts KA, Forbes AT. 1994. Macroinvertebrate
communities associated with intertidal and subtidal beds of
Pyura stolonifera (Heller) (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) on the
Natal coast South African Journal of Zoology 29(1): 46-53.
- 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 |
