Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Appendicularia > Order Copelata > Family Oikopleuridae > Subfamily Oikopleurinae > Tribe Labiata

Oikopleura Mertens, 1830

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Inopinata*	Fenaux & Youngbluth, 1991	synonym
*Mesopelagica*	Fenaux & Youngbluth, 1991	synonym

Children

Oikopleura (Coecaria) Lohmann, 1933
Oikopleura (Vexillaria) Lohmann, 1933

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: オイコプレウラ属

Literature

original description	Mertens, D. H. (1830). Beschreibung der Oikopleura, einer neuen Molluskengattung. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg (1931). 6: 205-220.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Appendicularia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 356
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
status source	Fol H. (1872). Etudes sur les Appendiculaires du détroit de Messine. Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 21: 445-499.

Genbank

Citation

Garic, R. (2025). World List of Appendicularia. Oikopleura Mertens, 1830. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103367