These ascidians come in a variety of colours; there are sponges and other colonial animals (bryozoans and gorgonians?) in the shot too. Darwinella australiensis encrusts the ascidians
Summary[edit] Description: English: Alder, Joshua, Embleton, Dennis, Hancock, Albany, Hopkinson, John,Norman, Alfred Merle ,1905-12 The British Tunicata; an unfinished monograph, by the late Joshua Alder and the late Albany Hancock. Edited by John Hopkinson, with a history of the work by the Rev. A. M. Norman.London,Printed for the Ray society. Volume 1 Plate 15 FIGS. 1 and 2. Ascidia scabra Mull. (p.128) 1. - Test:natural size.2. – Mantle: slightly enlarged.accepted name Ascidiella scabra (O F Müller, 1776) 3 and 4. Ascidia scabra var. albida A and H (p.311) 3. – Test :natural size. 4. – Mantle: slightly enlarged. 5-7 Ascidia scabra var. echinata (p.132). 5 - Test: slightly enlarged. 6 and 7 Views of mantle of another individual : slightly enlarged. 8 and 9 A. affinis A and H (p.136) 8. Test :natural size 9 - ? A. affinis accepted as Ascidiella aspersa (Müller, 1776). Date: 1850s date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/8. Source: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/. Author: Alder and Hancock.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Colonial ascidian on the wreck of the MV Rockeater in Smitswinkel Bay. Date: 19 May 2013, 09:25:36. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.
Description: English: A figure showing the distribution and phylogeny of the Pyura stolonifera species complex. Date: 2011. Source: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/176. Author: Peter Teske. Permission(Reusing this file): http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/176. Other information English: This image was published by myself in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute the resulting work under the same license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 CC BY-SA 1.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 truetrue.