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A tunicate is an exclusively marine invertebrate animal, a member of the subphylum Tunicata (/ ˌ tj uː n ɪ ˈ k eɪ t ə / TEW-nih-KAY-tə). This grouping is part of the Chordata , a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords (including vertebrates ).
Tunicate bibimbap is a specialty of Geoje Island, not far from Masan. [35] Microcosmus species from the Mediterranean Sea are eaten in France (figue de mer, violet), Italy (limone di mare, uova di mare) and Greece (fouska, φούσκα), for example, raw with lemon, or in salads with olive oil, lemon and parsley.
Molgula, or sea grapes, are very common, globular, individual marine tunicates roughly the size of grapes. [1]They are translucent with two protruding siphons. They are found subtidally, attached to slow-moving submerged objects or organisms.
Clavelina picta, common name the painted tunicate, is a species of tunicate (sea squirt), in the genus Clavelina (the "little bottles"). These animals, like all ascidians , are sessile filter feeders .
Pyrosomes are free-floating colonial tunicates in family Pyrosomatidae.There are three genera, Pyrosoma, Pyrosomella and Pyrostremma, and eight species. [3] [4] They usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths.
Ciona intestinalis (sometimes known by the common name of vase tunicate) is an ascidian (sea squirt), a tunicate with very soft tunic. Its Latin name literally means "pillar of intestines", referring to the fact that its body is a soft, translucent column-like structure, resembling a mass of intestines sprouting from a rock. [1]
Ecteinascidia turbinata, commonly known as the mangrove tunicate, is a species of tunicate in the family Perophoridae. [1] It was described to science in 1880 by William Abbott Herdman . The cancer drug trabectedin can be isolated from this species.
Botrylloides violaceus is a colonial ascidian.It is commonly known as the chain tunicate, [2] but has also been called several other common names, including: lined colonial tunicate, orange sheath tunicate, orange tunicate, and violet tunicate. [3]