Image of Didemnum carnulentum Ritter & Forsyth 1917
Description:
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.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Tunicata (tunicates)
- Ascidiacea (Ascidian)
- Aplousobranchia
- Didemnidae
- Didemnum (Yellow encrusting ascidian)
- Didemnum carnulentum
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