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Locality: South Ari Atoll, Maldives. Monniot & Monniot, 2001; p. 372 (tropical Indian and Pacific oceans)
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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These ascidians come in a variety of colours; there are sponges and other colonial animals (bryozoans and gorgonians?) in the shot too. Darwinella australiensis encrusts the ascidians
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Locality: South Ari Atoll, Maldives. Monniot & Monniot, 2001; p. 372 (tropical Indian and Pacific oceans)
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Nature's amazing underwater garden again! Inside these ascidians is a small animal that siphons and filters water for food; you can see the orange siphon clearly on the basal ascidian down the bottom
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Locality: South Ari Atoll, Maldives. Monniot & Monniot, 2001; p. 372 (tropical Indian and Pacific oceans)
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Pyura haustor, subtidal from Sares Head. Scale is cm. Animal appears partly encrusted, and the siphons are not fully extended. (Photo by: Dave Cowles July 2005)
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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