Didemnum sp.; Colonial Tunicate; <small>(shown with <a href=/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Solitary+corals&title_tag=Solitary+corals>Solitary corals</a>)</small>

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Didemnum sp.; Colonial Tunicate; (shown with Solitary corals)

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Didemnum sp.
Colonial Tunicate
(shown with Solitary corals)

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

ID: 0000 0000 1106 0197 (2006-11-06)

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date of photo between 1980 and 1986

latitude 36.56572 longitude -121.94019 max error distance 532 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Stillwater Cove, Carmel Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Didemnidae

class Ascidiacia

habitat Marine

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

camera Nikon in Oceanic Housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Colonial Tunicate (photographer)

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