🦋 Family

Ascidiidae

5 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Ascidiacea › Phlebobranchia › Ascidiidae

Ascidia mentula is a bottle-shaped tunicate native to the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean/Black Seas.

Ascidia incrassata Heller, 1878 is a sea squirt found off the southern coasts of South Africa, first described in 1878.

Ascidiella aspersa, the European sea squirt, is a solitary northeastern Atlantic sea squirt species with distinct physical features.

Phallusia mammillata is a solitary tunicate that grows up to 20 cm, found across northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters down to 200 m.

Phallusia nigra is a solitary tropical marine ascidian tunicate with acidic defensive vesicles and bioactive extracted compounds.

Related Families

Cionidae 3 species Corellidae 2 species Perophoridae 1 species

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