Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Tunicata Order Stolidobranchia Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Class Ascidiacea Family Styelidae | |
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The angular sea squirt, Styela angularis, is a solitary, hermaphroditic ascidian tunicate that is found along the coast of Southern Africa from Lüderitz Bay in Namibia to the Eastern Cape.
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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
Styela angularis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA