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Halocynthia igaboja Oka, 1906
Halocynthia igaboja Oka, 1906
Halocynthia igaboja (the sea hedgehog) is a large spiny solitary tunicate found …
Halocynthia aurantium (Pallas, 1787)
Halocynthia aurantium (Pallas, 1787)
Halocynthia aurantium, the sea peach, is a northern Pacific tunicate species pre…
Pyura stolonifera (Heller, 1878)
Pyura stolonifera (Heller, 1878)
Pyura stolonifera is a large solitary ascidian found in temperate southern Afric…
Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Pyura spinifera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Pyura spinifera, the sea tulip, is a colorful sessile filter-feeding ascidian fo…
Pyura haustor (Stimpson, 1864)
Pyura haustor (Stimpson, 1864)
Pyura haustor is a globular sea squirt native to the northeastern Pacific, found…
Pyura gibbosa (Heller, 1878)
Pyura gibbosa (Heller, 1878)
Pyura gibbosa is a sessile subtropical Australian sea squirt in the family Pyuri…
Pyura pachydermatina (Herdman, 1881)
Pyura pachydermatina (Herdman, 1881)
Pyura pachydermatina is a large, club-shaped tunicate native to the shallow cool…
Pyura chilensis Molina, 1782
Pyura chilensis Molina, 1782
Pyura chilensis is a vanadium-accumulating tunicate found off the coasts of Chil…
Pyura praeputialis (Heller, 1878)
Pyura praeputialis (Heller, 1878)
Pyura praeputialis, the cunjevoi tunicate, is native to Australian coasts and a …
Boltenia villosa (Stimpson, 1864)
Boltenia villosa (Stimpson, 1864)
Boltenia villosa is a solitary barrel-shaped tunicate found in the northeastern …
Herdmania momus (Savigny, 1816)
Herdmania momus (Savigny, 1816)
Herdmania momus, the red-throated ascidian, is a common sessile filter-feeding s…
Herdmania grandis (Heller, 1878)
Herdmania grandis (Heller, 1878)
Herdmania grandis is a sea squirt species in the family Pyuridae, first describe…
Clavelina huntsmani Van Name, 1931
Clavelina huntsmani Van Name, 1931
Clavelina huntsmani, the lightbulb tunicate, has transparent zooids in large clu…
Clavelina robusta Kott, 1990
Clavelina robusta Kott, 1990
Clavelina robusta is a clustered colonial tunicate with colored ringed siphons f…
Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776)
Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776)
Clavelina lepadiformis is a common shallow-water European ascidian with a transp…
Clavelina moluccensis (Sluiter, 1904)
Clavelina moluccensis (Sluiter, 1904)
Clavelina moluccensis is a blue tunicate with dark blue markings found across th…
Clavelina australis (Herdman, 1899)
Clavelina australis (Herdman, 1899)
Clavelina australis is a sessile colonial filter-feeding ascidian found in shall…
Nephtheis fascicularis (Drasche, 1882)
Nephtheis fascicularis (Drasche, 1882)
Nephtheis fascicularis is a single-species genus Indonesian shallow reef tunicat…
Pycnoclavella stanleyi Berrill & Abbott, 1949
Pycnoclavella stanleyi Berrill & Abbott, 1949
Pycnoclavella stanleyi is a small sessile colonial tunicate found in shallow Eas…
Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002
Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002
Didemnum vexillum, the colloquial "sea cheese", is an invasive tunicate spread g…
Didemnum molle (Herdman, 1886)
Didemnum molle (Herdman, 1886)
Didemnum molle is a common colonial tunicate native to the western Indo-Pacific,…
Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841)
Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841)
Diplosoma is a cosmopolitan genus of tunicates in the tunicate family Didemnidae…
Lissoclinum perforatum (Giard, 1872)
Lissoclinum perforatum (Giard, 1872)
Lissoclinum perforatum is a species of tunicate first described by Alfred Mathie…
Aplidium californicum (Ritter & Forsyth, 1917)
Aplidium californicum (Ritter & Forsyth, 1917)
Aplidium californicum is a compound tunicate found along the Pacific coast of No…
