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Soestia is a monotypic genus of belonging to the family Salpidae. The genus was described by Patricia Mather in 1998.Kott, P. 1998. Tunicata. 51-259, 259–261 (App. I–111), 265–292 (Index) in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 34. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia 298 pp. The only species is Soestia zonaria, which was first described in 1774 by Peter Simon Pallas as Holothurium zonarium.
The species has cosmopolitan distribution.
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