Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Tunicata > Class Appendicularia > Order Copelata > Family Kowalevskiidae > Genus Kowalevskia

Kowalevskia tenuis Fol, 1872

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Kowalevskia*	Fol, 1872	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ノロオタマボヤ

Literature

original description	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.
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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Fenaux, R., Q. Bone, and D. Deibel. 1998. Appendicularian distribution and zoogeography, p. 251-264. In q. Bone [ed.], The biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford University Press.

Genbank

Citation

Garic, R. (2025). World List of Appendicularia. Kowalevskia tenuis Fol, 1872. 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:103392