Chordata
Didemnum sp.
Didemnum sp.
1. In situ (Greg McFall)
2. In situ (Greg McFall)
3. In situ (Greg McFall)
4. In situ (Greg McFall)
5. In situ (Danny Gleason)
6. Out of Water (Danny Gleason)
7. Out of water (Steve Vives)
Size
Colony height: 0.5cm (0.15") Colony width: reaching 20cm (8"), highly variable
Recognition Characters
Encrusting colonies of grouped individual tunicates which form thin meandering mats.
Color
White
Habitat & Depth
Encrust other organisms such as sponges, other tunicates, and hydroids and bryozoans. Also hard bottoms, dead coral, rocks and shipwrecks. To 50m.
Distribution at GRNMS
Common. Encrust a variety of other sessile organisms.
Geographic Range
North Carolina south to Florida, Caribbean and West Indies
Behavior & Notes
Synonyms
Ruppert and Fox 1988