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Ascidia zara

Status not recordedother invertebrates

Ascidia zara is a species in the family Ascidiidae, order Phlebobranchia.

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Quick facts about Ascidia zara

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Ascidia zara live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Ascidia zara as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Mexico
  2. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Ascidia zara endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Ascidia zara classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAscidiacea
  4. orderPhlebobranchia
  5. familyAscidiidae
  6. genusAscidia
  7. SpeciesAscidia zara Oka, 1935

Synonyms Ascidia suensoni

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • ザラボヤJapanese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Ascidia zara

Other species in the same genus Ascidia.

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Common questions

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Is Ascidia zara an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Ascidia zara as introduced in 2 countries: Mexico and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Ascidia zara?

Ascidia zara (Ascidia zara) belongs to the family Ascidiidae in the order Phlebobranchia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ascidia zara (Ascidia zara). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ascidia-zara

MLA

“Ascidia zara (Ascidia zara).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ascidia-zara.

BibTeX
@misc{ascidia_zara_2026,
  title = {Ascidia zara (Ascidia zara)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ascidia-zara},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}