Yellow Encrusting Ascidian

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Figure 2.Photosymbiotic ascidians with tunic spicules. Colonies in situ and tunic spicules (inset) of Didemnum molle (A), Trididemnum miniatum (B), Lissoclinum patella (C), Lissoclinum punctatum (D), and Lissoclinum timorense (E). Tunic cells contain Prochloron cells in the tunic of Lissoclinum punctatum (F). Scale bars = 20 µm.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

This filter-feeding colonial animal is a chordate--it's in the same phylum we are. The tiny apertures are intake pores; several of them share the larger common excurrent pores. The animals are hermaphroditic; they reproduce sexually with typical tunicate tadpole larvae. 12 m deep.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Photographed in the seagrass bed

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Both solitary and colonial tunicates are common on the Monterey Peninsula. It would take minute dissection to identify this specimen down to species.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.