Ascidian at Barragga Bay, NSW
Identification history
| Herdmania momus | 19 Feb 2017 | Jennyncmg | ||
| Unidentified | 11 Jan 2017 | narelle |
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User's notes
The body is spherical about 8 cm in diameter. The tube coming out the top is about 1.5 cm wide.
3 comments
narelle
wrote:
23 Jan 2017
When I first saw this creature years ago, it didn't have all the sea weeds growing on it. It looked like a human heart, smooth and red with two big tubes coming out of it. When the tide is low and it is exposed to air the tube closes its mouth forming a small cross shaped slit.
LizAllen
wrote:
19 Feb 2017
Your photo looks like Herdmania momus .
The second sentence sounds like a description of Pyura stolonifera [Cunjevoi ]
Same family !
The second sentence sounds like a description of Pyura stolonifera [Cunjevoi ]
Same family !
Location information
- Coordinates 150.061521-36.507748
- Maps Four Winds Bioblitz Reference Sites
- Places Barragga Bay, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 10 Jan 2017 12:50 PM Recorded on
- narelle Recorded by
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Collections
Marine Invertebrates Other Marine Invertebrates Sea Squirts (Tunicata) narelle
Species information
- Herdmania momus Scientific name
- Ascidian Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
