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Almost Us!? Sea Squirts, Tunicates, Ascidians, Subphylum Urochordata,
Phylum Chordata Pt. 3
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| Diplosoma virens, (Family Didemnidae), Raja Ampat. |
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| Distaplia corolla, Button Tunicate. Small (1/4" or
less) oval individuals with one larger outflowing opening. Generally grow in
small clusters as these are in Cozumel. Tropical West Atlantic. Found
growing on dead coral. Orange or purple in color. |
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| Eudistoma cf. gilboviride (Sluiter 1909).
Light to bright green with yellow overall mottling. West Pacific; Australia,
Indonesia, Melanesia. Here in S. Sulawesi. |
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| Eudistoma sp. Colonies as smooth rounded masses.
Typically cream, lighter grey with darker grey markings. N. Sulawesi image. |
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| Eudistoma sp. Heron Island, Capricorn Group,
Queensland, Australia. |
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| Eusynstyela cf. misakiensis (Watanabe & Tokioka
1972). Indonesia, New Caledonia, Japan. Zooids about 1 cm. long placed next
to each other, with a conspicuous white mark between the siphons. Typically
orange-red to purplish in color. Pulau Redang, Malaysia image. |
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| Eusynstyla sp. the last possibly latericus Fiji
and Red Sea images. |
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| Herdamania momus (Savigny 1816). Western Atlantic,
Indo-Pacific, incl. Red Sea. To 10 cm. overall. Globular in shape, solitary,
with flared oral siphons. Most are tan in color with red mottling. Look for
the shrimp, Pontonia sibogae living in its branchial sac. N.
Sulawesi. |
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