Reference list
Displaying references in checklist: Ascidiacea (contributor: Meenakshi, V.K., Renganathan, T.K.)
Das, S.M. 1936. Herdmania (The monascidian of the Indian seas). Indian Zoological Memoirs. No. 5. Lucknow.
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Das, S.M. 1945. On a collection of monascidians from Madras. J. Roy. Asiatic Soc. Bengal Science. 11(1): 6-17.
Krishnan, R., Chandran, M.R. and Renganathan, T.K. 1989. On the occurrence of four species of ascidians new to Indian waters. Geobios new Reports. 8: 70-74.
Meenakshi, V.K. 2003. Marine biodiversity – Taxonomy of Indian ascidians. Final Technical Report submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi. 1-103. Unpublished.
Meenakshi, V.K. 2005. Addition to the ascidian fauna of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 47(1): 36-49.
Meenakshi, V.K. 2009. New records of five species of colonial ascidians of the genus Ecteinascidia Herdman, 1880 from the Gulf of Mannar. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 106(1): 107-112.
Meenakshi, V.K. 1997. Biology of a few chosen ascidians.. Ph.D. Thesis, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. Unpublished.
Meenakshi, V.K. 1998. Occurrence of a new ascidian species – Distaplia nathensis sp. nov. and two species – Eusynstyela tincta (Van Name, 1902), Phallusia nigra (Savigny, 1816) new records for Indian waters.. Indian J. Mar. Sci. 27: 477 – 479.
Meenakshi, V.K. 1998. Three species of polyclinid ascidians – New records to Indian waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 40(1&2): 201-205.
Meenakshi, V.K. 2000. Trididemnum Della valle, 1881, an unrecorded genus of colonial ascidian from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 97(2): 302-304.
Meenakshi, V.K. 2000. Ecteinascidia venui sp. nov., a colonial ascidian (Perophoridae) from Tuticorin, southeast coast of India.. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences. 29: 83-85.
Meenakshi, V.K. 2002. Occurrence of a new species of colonial ascidian Eudistoma kaverium sp. nov. and four new records of Eudistoma to Indian coastal waters.. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences. 31(3): 201-206.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Renganathan, T.K. 1997. On the occurrence of a rare simple ascidian Rhodosoma turcicum (Savigny, 1816) from India. Geobios new Reports. 16: 152-153.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Renganathan, T.K. 1998. On the occurrence of a simple ascidian - Ascidia sydneiensis Stimpson, 1855 from Tuticorin Coast of India. Geobios new Reports. 17: 71-72.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Renganathan, T.K. 1999. Ascidia dorsata (Ascidiidae) – an ascidian new to science from Tuticorin coast of India. Geobios new Reports. 18: 63-66.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Renganathan, T.K. 1999. Phallusia poytrema (Herdman, 1906) - a new record to Indian waters. Geobios new Reports. 18: 61-63.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Senthamarai, S. 2007. New record of the simple ascidian Styela plicata (Lesueur, 1823). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104(1): 106-108.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Senthamarai, S. 2007. New records of two species of simple ascidians – Microcosmus pupa (Savigny,1816) and Microcosmus squamiger, Hartmeyer and Michaelsen,1928 – from Indian seas. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104(2): 238-240.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Senthamarai, S. 2006. First report of a simple ascidian – Pyura spinosa (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834) from Tuticorin Coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 48(1): 103-104.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Senthamarai, S. 2006. First report on two species of ascidians to represent the genus Botryllus Gaertner, 1774 from Indian water. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 48(1): 100-102.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Senthamarai, S. 2006. Two new styelid ascidians – Polycarpa maniensis sp. nov., Polycarpa scatterata sp. nov. and one new record Polycarpa aurita (Sluiter, 1890) from Indian waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 48(1): 95-99.
Meenakshi, V.K. and Venugopal, S. 1999. Ecteinascidia sluiteri Herdman, 1906 – New record of a colonial ascidian to Indian waters. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 97(3): 446-447.
Monniot, F. 1972. Ascidies Aplousobranches des Bermudas. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris. Zool. 61: 942-962.
Oka, A. 1915. Report upon the Tunicata in the collection of the Indian Museum.. Mem. Indian Mus. 6: 1-33.
Renganathan, T.K. 1984. Redescription of a rare colonial ascidian Botrylloides chevalense Herdman, 1906. Geobios new Reports. 3: 158-160.
Renganathan, T.K. 1984. Aplidium multiplicatum Sluiter, 1909 – a new record for the Indian waters. Geobios new Reports. 3: 155-156.
Renganathan, T.K. 1984. New record and redescription of a rare colonial ascidian Eudistoma viride, Tokioka, 1955 from the Indian waters. Geobios new Reports. 3: 49-51.
Renganathan, T.K. 1985. On the occurrence of a colonial ascidian, Symplegma brakenhielmi Michaelsen, 1904 from Tuticorin Coast of India. Geobios new Reports. 4: 75-77.
Renganathan, T.K. 1986. Eudistoma lakshmiani n. sp. a new colonial ascidian from Tuticorin Coast of India. Geobios new Reports. 5(2): 163- 164.
Renganathan, T.K. 1981. New record of a simple ascidian Styela bicolor (Sluiter, 1887) from the Tuticorin Coast of India.. Curr. Sci. 50(22): 1008.
Renganathan, T.K. 1986. New record of Molgula martensii Traustedt, 1885 (Molgulidae/Ascidiacea) from Indian waters. Geobios new Reports. 5(1): 62-63.
Renganathan, T.K. 1981. On the occurrence of a colonial ascidian Didemnum psammathodes (Sluiter, 1895) from India.. Curr. Sci. 50(20): 922.
Renganathan, T.K. 1986. Studies on the ascidians of South India.. Ph.D. Thesis, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. Unpublished.
Renganathan, T.K. 1982. On the occurrence of a colonial ascidian - Lissoclinum fragile (Van Name, 1902) from India.. Curr. Sci. 51(3): 149.
Renganathan, T.K. 1983. First record of a simple ascidian Microcosmus curvus Tokioka, 1954 from Indian waters.. Curr. Sci. 52(19): 929-930.
Renganathan, T.K. 1983. Perophora formosana, Oka, 1931 (Ascidacea-Perophoridae) – a new record for the Indian waters. Geobios new Reports. 2: 78-79.
Renganathan, T.K. 1984. Ecteinascidia garstangi, Sluiter 1898 – a colonial ascidian not hitherto been recorded from India. Geobios new Reports. 3: 54-55.
Renganathan, T.K. and Krishnaswamy, S. 1985. Some colonial ascidians from Indian waters.. Indian J. Mar. Sci. 14: 38-41.
Renganathan, T.K. and Monniot, F. 1984. Addition to ascidian fauna of India. Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. nat. Paris 4e ser. 6A(2): 257-262.
Sebastian, V.O. 1955. Perophora listeri indica var. nova. a new ascidian from the Madras Coast of India. Zoo. Anz. 154(11/12): 266-268.
Sebastian, V.O. 1956. Symplegma viride Herdman and Symplegma viride stolonica Berrill, two unrecorded fouling organisms from Indian seas. J. Timb. Dry. Preserv. Ass. India. 11(3): 2-4.
Sebastian, V.O. 1952. A new species of synascidian from Madras.. Curr. Sci. 21: 316-317.
Sebastian, V.O. 1954. On Polyclinum indicum, a new ascidian from the Madras Coast of India. Washington Acad. Sci. 44(1): 18-24.