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(eukaryotes)
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(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
DEUTEROSTOMIA
(deuterostomes)
CHORDATA
(vertebrates)
UROCHORDATA
(ascidians, sea-squirts, tunicates)
ASCIDIACEA
(ascidians, sea-squirts)
PLEUROGONA
(an order of sea squirts)
STOLIDOBRANCHIA
(a suborder of sea squirts)
STYELIDAE
(a family of sea squirts)
Botrylloides
(a genus of colonial sea squirts)
Botryllus schlosseri
(Star Ascidian, Star Sea Squirt)
Record

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Botryllus schlosseri (Star Ascidian, Star Sea Squirt)

Date: 6 May 2008
OS grid ref: SY67
Lat/Lon: 50° 40' N, 2° 30' W
Location: Vice County: Dorset, VC9, England
Stage or state: Colony
Record Summary: yellow form - on vertical faces of old concrete blocks beside Botryloides leachi, exposed at low tide
Identification Notes: Growing beside Botryloides leachi

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