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Related FAQs: Sea Squirts, Ascidians 2, Ascidian ID, Ascidian Behavior, Ascidian Compatibility, Ascidian Selection, Ascidian Systems, Ascidian Feeding, Ascidian Disease, Ascidian Reproduction,

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Almost Us!? Sea Squirts, Tunicates, Ascidians, Subphylum Urochordata, Phylum Chordata Pt. 4

To: Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 5,

By Bob Fenner

 

Leptoclinides cf. reticulatus (Sluiter 1909). An encrusting species of thin, membranous make-up. Dark grey with yellow-white siphon interiors. Shallow water reefs of the Western Pacific. N. Sulawesi pic. 

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Lissoclinum cf. vareau Monniot & Monniot 1987. Western Pacific; Australia to Polynesia. This colony in the. Encrusting colonies that are soft and fragile. Oral and cloacal openings numerous, distributed throughout the colony. White with magenta siphon openings. 

 

Oxycorynia fascicularis N. Sulawesi image.

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Pachyclavella sp. N. Sulawesi image (Lembeh Strait). 

Perophora modificata Kott 1985. Western Pacific; Australia, Indonesia, Philippines. Zooids in dense clusters, with short stalks. Transparent lemon-yellow in color. Here in Bunaken/Sulawesi/Indo. 

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Perophora namei Hartmeyer & Michaelsen 1928. To less than 10 cm. in length, counting stalk. Ovoid, bluish zooids.Western Pacific; Indonesia, Philippines, Coral Sea. S. Sulawesi/Indo. 

Polycarpa aurata (Quoy & Gaimard 1834). Indo-Pacific; Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Micronesians. This image made off of the north of Lombok, Indo. 

Polycarpa pigmentata (Herdman 1906). Distinctive, independent polyps with thick leathery tunics, bright white-dotted siphon interiors. N. Sulawesi image. 

Pycnoclavella sp. Heron Island, QLD, GBR

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To: Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 5,






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