Rhopalaea

Rhopalaea is a genus of tunicates belonging to the family Diazonidae.^[2][3] The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in warm and temperate oceans.^[3]

Rhopalaea
A common, but undescribed Rhopalaea species in the Philippines
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Tunicata
Class:	Ascidiacea
Order:	Aplousobranchia
Family:	Diazonidae
Genus:	Rhopalaea Philippi, 1843[1]
Species
21 species (see text)
Synonyms[2]
Rhopalona Roule, 1886 (unnecessary nomen novum for Rhopalaea) Rhopalopsis Herdman, 1890

Species

The genus Rhopalaea has 21 recognized species:^[2]

• Rhopalaea abdominalis (Sluiter, 1898)
• Rhopalaea bilobata Mondal J., Raghunathan & Mondal T., 2017
• Rhopalaea birkelandi Tokioka, 1971
• Rhopalaea circula Monniot F. & Monniot C., 2001
• Rhopalaea cloneyi Vazquez & Young, 1996
• Rhopalaea crassa (Herdman, 1880)
• Rhopalaea defecta (Sluiter, 1904)
• Rhopalaea desme Monniot F., 2003
• Rhopalaea flemingi (Herdman, 1880)
• Rhopalaea fusca (Herdman, 1880)
• Rhopalaea hartmeyeri (Salfi, 1927)
• Rhopalaea idoneta Shenkar, 2013
• Rhopalaea macrothorax Tokioka, 1953
• Rhopalaea meridionalis Kott, 2006
• Rhopalaea neapolitana Philippi, 1843^[1]
• Rhopalaea orientalis (Pérès, 1958)
• Rhopalaea perlucida Monniot C., 1997
• Rhopalaea piru Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1987
• Rhopalaea respiciens Monniot C., 1991
• Rhopalaea sagamiana Oka, 1927
• Rhopalaea tenuis (Sluiter, 1904)