Classification: Class Ascidiacea (Sea Squirts)


Number of items: 5.

Ascidia virginea (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > West of Shetland > Lancaster
North Sea > West of Shetland > Lancaster

Depth (m): 155

Ascidiacea (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > Whittard Canyon
Depth (m): -2671.76

Ascidiacea (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > Rockall Bank
Depth (m): 299

Octacnemidae (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > Whittard Canyon
Depth (m): -2725.73

Predatory tunicate (1 file)
Site: Indian > Indian Ocean > East Africa > Kitatange-1
Depth (m): 2314
Behaviour: A predatory tunicate will capture food from the water column including small crustaceans such as amphipods. See the following paper by Okuyama (2002) for more information: "Morphological Studies on the Bathyal Ascidian, Megalodicopia hians Oka 1918 (Octacnemidae, Phlebobranchia), with Remarks on Feeding and Tunic Morphology".

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