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Sea squirts

Pink Tunicate

Didemnum membranaceum

Also known as: Colonial Sea Squirt, Colonial Tunicate, Purple Sea Mat, Rose Tunicate, Sea Squirt, Wrinkled Sea Mats

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Overview

Found in lobed colonies, anchored to hard surfaces, of dead coral and rocks on shallow reefs.
This tunicate is known to host the shrimp Periclimenaeus kottae.
They feed on suspended plankton and zooplankton.
Widespread Indo Pacific

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How to identify

COLOURS
Body shape
holes

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found in lobed colonies, anchored to hard surfaces, of dead coral and rocks on shallow reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classAscidiacea
    4. orderAplousobranchia
    5. familyDidemnidae
    6. genusDidemnum
    7. speciesDidemnum membranaceum Sluiter, 1909

    SourcesWoRMSWikipedia

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