Tunicates are marine invertebrates. Some are solitary while others reproduce by budding and become colonies. They are marine filter-feeders. Most adults are permanently attached to the substrate. Salps, however, swim freely. During their larval stage, tunicates have a primitive notochord and resemble a tadpole.
Solitary tunichates:
blue sea squirts, Rhopalaea sp.
[unidentified tunichates]
Colonial tunichates:
bluebell tunicate, Clavelina moluccensis
Didemnum molle
[unidentified colonial tunicate]
Club tunichates:
Salps:
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