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Also Known As urochordate • Urochordata • Tunicata

Photos

Bright blue sea squirt Rhopalaea crassa with yellow-edged openings grows on a coral reef among various corals in the Philippines.
Underwater view of a glowing chain of tunicates with a scuba diver and boat visible near the water's surface in the background.
sea squirt; colonial tunicate
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William Brooks
William Keith Brooks
American zoologist
Maurice Caullery
Maurice Caullery
French biologist
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Sir William Abbott Herdman
British oceanographer

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