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Didemnum carnulentum; Compound Tunicate; (shown with Red alga)

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Didemnum carnulentum
Compound Tunicate
(shown with Red alga)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0405 0775 (2005-04-16)

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date of photo between 1980 and 1986

latitude 36.81856 longitude -121.79270 max error distance 26012 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Didemnidae

order Enterogona

class Ascidiacea

habitat Subtidal

notes 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.

camera Nikonos

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Compound Tunicate (photographer)

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