Painted Sea Squirt
Ecteinascidia bandaensis
Also known as: Lightbulb Sea Squirt, Little Bottles, Sea Squirt, Tunicate, Zooids, Colonial Tunicate, Red-circled White Sea Squirt
- Lightbulb Sea Squirt
- Little Bottles
- Sea Squirt
- Tunicate
- Zooids
- Colonial Tunicate
- Red-circled White Sea Squirt
Overview
Found often in dense colonies of cylindrical zooids. Along drop-off's and walls, over coral and rocky reefs.
Ascidian, also known as tunicates because their bodies are covered by a "tunic" a tough cellulose-like covering.
The other common name is sea squirt because when threatened they sometimes eject a jet of water.
How to identify
Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Indo-Pacific
- Country only · 1
Found often in dense colonies of cylindrical zooids.
Adult photos 1
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Deep dive
Taxonomy
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAscidiacea
- orderAplousobranchia
- familyPolycitoridae
- genusEcteinascidia
- speciesEcteinascidia bandaensis Millar, 1975
SourcesWoRMS
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