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What you see here is the "house" that the ascidian builds around its body in its adult form. Shark Point, Sydney
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Collected from Grape St. Pier, San Diego Bay.
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Aghia Pelagia, Crete, Greece
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Collected from Grape St. Pier, San Diego Bay - living on Mytilus galloprovincialis. This was part of the High Tech High San Diego Bay Study (
www.sdbayguide.com).
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Concarneau, Brittany, France
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Summerstrand, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Collected from Grape St. Pier, San Diego Bay.
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This colonial animal is comprised of hundreds of tiny zooid animals, each inhabiting one siphon as seen in this picture
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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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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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