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A colourful compound ascidian - a colony of animals that live together and share nutrients. Each hole is one animal
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A colony of tiny filter feeders all sharing a common matrix; you can see the filtering / pumping mechanisms inside the big siphons
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Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands
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Pantai Liang, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Mabul, Sabah, Malaysia
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Kasawari, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands
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Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands
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Pantai Liang, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands
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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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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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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
