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Polycarpa aurata
Species of sea squirt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polycarpa aurata, also known as the ox heart ascidian, the gold-mouth sea squirt or the ink-spot sea squirt, is a species of tunicate in the family Styelidae.
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Polycarpa aurata | |
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Polycarpa aurata, purple and yellow variant | |
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Nudibranch (Nembrotha lineolata) laying an egg spiral on a Polycarpa aurata off the coast of Metinaro, East Timor. | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Tunicata |
Class: | Ascidiacea |
Order: | Stolidobranchia |
Family: | Styelidae |
Genus: | Polycarpa |
Species: | P. aurata |
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Polycarpa aurata | |
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