Biology:Styela angularis
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Short description: Species of sea squirt
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Tunicata |
| Class: | Ascidiacea |
| Order: | Stolidobranchia |
| Family: | Styelidae |
| Genus: | Styela |
| Species: | S. angularis
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| Binomial name | |
| Styela angularis (Stimpson, 1855)[1]
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Styela angularis (angular sea squirt) is a solitary, hermaphroditic ascidian tunicate that is found along the coast of Southern Africa from Lüderitz Bay in Namibia to the Eastern Cape.[2]
Description
Order of 100 millimetres (3.9 in) tall, with a tough flexible opaque hexagonal test tapering down to a narrow base peduncle. Stands upright on the substrate. Cloacal siphon terminal, and oral siphon slightly ventral and posterior.
Behaviour
Occurs singly on rocks or other hard surfaces where water is clean and fairly fast moving. Often covered by epibionts.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rosana Moreira da Rocha & Karen Sanamyan (2013). "Styela angularis (Stimpson, 1855)". Ascidiacea World Database. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215876.
- ↑ Monniot, C; Monniot, F; Griffiths, C.L; Schleyer, M (2001). "South African ascidians". Annals of the South African Museum 108 (1): 1–141. ISBN 0868131806. http://biostor.org/reference/113425.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4916964 entry
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