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minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves

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The genus Corella (Ascidiacea, Phlebobranchia, Corellidae) in the southern hemisphere with description of a new species.
Morpho-functional characterization of haemocytes of the compound ascidian Botrylloides leachi (Tunicata, Ascidiacea).
Isolation of high molecular weight DNA from colonies of botryllid ascidians (Ascidiacea).
Segelken-Voigt A, Bracher A, Dorschel B, Gutt J, Huneke W Link H and Piepenburg D (2016) Spatial distribution patterns of ascidians (Ascidiacea: Tunicata) on the continental shelves off the northern Antarctic Peninsula.
A tale of death and life: natural apoptosis in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri (Urochordata, Ascidiacea).
The Ascidians, commonly called sea squirts (Subphylum: Urochordata, Class Ascidiacea) are dominant organisms in many marine communities, having a wide geographic distribution [32].
The epifauna was composed of 46 Scaphopoda and mollusca species, 36 Fish, 33 Polychaeta, 29 Crustacea, 6 Echinodermata, 2 Cnidaria (Anthozoa), 3 Sipuncula, 1 Nemertini, 2 Ascidiacea and 1 Pycnogonida.
Life histories and senescence of Botryllus schlosseri (Chordata, Ascidiacea) in Monterey Bay.
6) by Ruth von Arx [now deceased], and the "Ascidiacea of the Atlantic Continental Shelf of the United States" by Harold Plough (1978).
Se identificaron 229 especies correspondientes a 11 Filos: Annelida (Polychaeta), Arthropoda (Pycnogonida, Malacostraca, Ostracoda), Bryozoa, Chordata (Ascidiacea), Cnidaria (Anthozoa, Hydrozoa), Echinodermata (Echinoidea, Ophiuroidea, Holothuroidea, Asteroidea), Mollusca (Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Cephalopoda, Scaphopoda), Nemertea (Anopla, Enopla), Platyhelminthes, Porifera y Sipuncula, todos son grupos representativos de comunidades bentonicas costeras (Tabla 1, Apendice I).
Some species identified as causing similarity within fishing grounds such as Alcyonium digitatum, hydroids, Ascidiacea, and Diodora graeca are known to be associated or occur as epibionts on queen scallops in the Isle of Man (Bradshaw et al.