Stomozoa is a genus of

tunicate Tunicates are marine invertebrates belonging to the subphylum Tunicata ( ). This grouping is part of the Chordata, a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords (including vertebrates). The subphylum was at one time ...

s. It is the only genus in the family Stomozoidae in the order

Aplousobranchia Aplousobranchia is an order of sea squirts in the class Ascidiacea, first described by Fernando Lahille in 1886. They are colonial animals, and are distinguished from other sea squirts by the presence of relatively simple pharyngeal baskets. Thi ...

. The family of stomozoids was described by Patricia Kott in 1990.

References

Aplousobranchia Tunicate genera Taxa named by Patricia Kott Taxa described in 1957 {{tunicata-stub