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Aplidium elegans

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Description

Aplidium elegans is a colonial sea squirt forming pink cushions from 3 to 4 cm long. The zooids are embedded in a common test and grouped around sinuous, irregular cloacal canals. The oral siphons are slightly prominent and bordered of eight small white lobes. Colonies are attached to rocks.

Distribution

Aplidium elegans is found from 5 m to 20 m deep in the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Classification

Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 12-11-2024

Glossaire de la page

Zooid : individual, single animal.

Cloacal : related to the cavity through which water is expelled from the ascidian.

Authors

Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2024.

Photos : © Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography

Image satellite: © Esri, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community.

Données de distribution : Aplidium elegans in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-12.

Guide des Tuniciers

Classification

Source : World Register of Marine Species


Dernière mise à jour 12-11-2024

Guide des Tuniciers

Page glossary

Zooid : individual, single animal.

Cloacal : related to the cavity through which water is expelled from the ascidian.

Authors

Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2024.

Photos : © Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography

How to cite this page

Bay-Nouailhat A., September 2005, Description of Aplidium elegans, [On line] https://european-marine-life.org/32/aplidium-elegans.php, consulted on 2024 November 12.

Author

Photographie de Anne Bay-Nouailhat

Anne Bay-Nouailhat

Project manager in marine environment
Professional diver - Naturalist

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