Purple-and-White Didemnum
Didemnum
Also known as: Colonial Ascidian, Compound Ascidian, Sea Squirt, Sea Strawberry, Strawberry Sea Squirt, Tunicate
- Colonial Ascidian
- Compound Ascidian
- Sea Squirt
- Sea Strawberry
- Strawberry Sea Squirt
- Tunicate
Overview
Found in colonies on dead corals, over shallow sheltered waters.
They feed on suspended plankton and detritus.
Depth 1-20m
Sea Squirts are often singular, but some are attached by a stalk or embedded in a jelly like substance these are colonial asidians.
They usually have two openings, one for oxygen and food and the other for waste and water to be pumped out of.
How to identify
Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Indo-Pacific
- Country only · 1
Found in colonies on dead corals, over shallow sheltered waters.
Adult photos 1
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Taxonomy
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAscidiacea
- orderAplousobranchia
- familyDidemnidae
- genusDidemnum Savigny, 1816
SourcesWoRMS
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