NH Rocky Intertidal
Common organisms of the NH Rocky Coast
Golden Star Tunicate
Botryllus schlosseri, commonly known as the star ascidian or golden star tunicate, is a colonial ascidian tunicate that grows on slow-moving, submerged objects, plants, and animals in nearshore saltwater environments.
Sea Vase
Ciona intestinalis (vase tunicate) is a urochordata (sea squirt), a tunicate with very soft tunic, globally distributed cosmopolitan species. Since Linnaeus described the species, Ciona intestinalis has been used as a model invertebrate chordate in developmental biology and genomics. However, recent studies have shown that there are at least two, possibly four, ...more ↓
