''Perophora listeri'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
colonial sea squirt
Ascidiacea, commonly known as the ascidians or sea squirts, is a paraphyletic class in the subphylum Tunicata of sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders. Ascidians are characterized by a tough outer test or "tunic" made of the polysaccharid ...
in the genus ''
Perophora'', native to the North Atlantic.
Description
''Perophora japonica'' is a colonial tunicate with small, rounded, translucent zooids connected by a network of stolons.
[Bowen, S.; Goodwin, C.; Kipling, D.; Picton, B. E. (2018). Sea Squirts and Sponges of Britain and Ireland. .]
References
Perophoridae
Animals described in 1835
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