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Recent Updates:
2 October 2007: 71 photos of the ascidians off the U.S. north east coast.
30 September 2007: Photos of Ciona intestinalis and Styela clava from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
4 January 2006: 3 ascidian species from the Thousand
Islands, Java, Indonesia were added., i.e. Aplidium
multiplicata , Archidistoma
richeri and Polycarpa
papillata.
2 November 2005: 105 photographs of c. 45 ascidian species/morphs from the
Thousand Islands, Java, Indonesia
were added.
20 June 2004: 106 photographs of c. 40 ascidian species/morphs from the Maldives
were added.
5 February 2004: Additional photographs from the Netherlands: Ascidiella
aspersa, Ascidiella
scabra, Aplidium
glabrum with larvae,
Botrylloides
leachi , Botrylloides
violaceus , Ciona
intestinalis, Didemnum
lahillei, Molgula
manhattensis and Styela
clava.
A lot of photographs of ascidian species by Peter
Wirtz were added, i.e. from the Azores:
Clavelina lepadiformis, Clavelina
oblonga, Cystodytes
dellechiajei, Distaplia
corolla, Stolonica
socialis; from Crete, Greece: Didemnid
brown-white, didemnid
pink, didemnid
yellow white, Halocynthia
papillosa, Microcosmus
polymorphus, Pycnoclavella
aurilucens; from Madeira: Eudistoma
angolanum, Phallusia
mammillata, Clavelina
dellavallei, Pycnoclavella
taureanensis; from Norway: Ascidia
virginea; from Portugal: Aplidium
proliferum; from the Adriatic Sea:
Phallusia fumigata. Five photographs of salps, Thaliacea
by Peter
Wirtz: Jasis
zonaria, Pyrosoma
atlanticum and Salpa
maxima.
A photograph of Ascidia
virginea from Norway by Gerrit
van Wijk.
Photographs from Norway by Dirk Schories:
Ascidia
conchilega, Ascidia
virginea, Botryllus
schlosseri,
Ciona intestinalis and
Halocynthia pyriformis.
A photograph of Ciona
gelatinosa from Canada by Tim Siferd, identified by Karen Sanamyan.
A photograph of Halocynthia
pyriformis in the Ocean Sciences Centre
laboratory, Cananda, by Lena von Harbou.
Photographs of Perophora
japonica from Plymouth, Britain by David Nicholson and Dorothea Sommerfeldt
from the Marine Biological Association of the
UK and published on the Marine
Life Information Network (MarLIN) Web site.
Direct thumbnail links to 70 "ascidian photographs" of
the US west coast on the Stachowicz
Lab Website.v
4 January 2004: Photographs of 6 ascidian species/morphs
by Junichi Tanaka, i.e. Didemnum
cf
roberti,
Eudistoma white, Neptheis
blue,
Polycitoridae
blue,
Polycitoridae white and Sycozoa
seiziwadai, from Flores.
11 November 2003: A search engine has been added to the website "Search
this website".
9 May 2003: 16 ascidian species/photographs
by Thomas Stach from the Indian
River Lagoon (Florida); photograph of Ciona
savignyi by Charles and Gretchen Lambert from Long Beach (California);
10 ascidian species/photographs by Peter van Bragt from the Philippines.
24 Jan 2003: New species link from Guadeloupe.
Symplega
viride.
10 Jan 2003: Many new links to the ascidian
species (Britain / Ireland) webpages of the Ulster
Museum Website.
15 dec 2002: New species links Aplidium
glabrum, Ascidia
gemmata, Ascidia
sydneiensis, Didemnum
viridis, Perophora
modificata, Stolonica
socialis.
15 dec 2002: New photograph of Styela
clava.
16 okt 2002: New species links Clavelina
arafurensis, Didemnum
moseleyi, Ecteinascidia
ndouae, Symplega
rubra.
15 okt 2002: New species links Ascidia
mentula, Pycnoclavella
aurilucens.
1 okt 2002: New species links Rhopalaea
circulata, Rhopalaea
yellow spot.
30 sep 2002: New species link Aplidium
longithorax
27 sep 2002: New species links Eudistoma
gilboviride, Phallusia
julinea.
25 sep 2002: New species links Clavelina
morph
blue white, Polyclinidae
green, Didemnidae
purple, Didemnidae
transparent yellow, Distaplia
cf pallida, Botryllidae
yellow, Cionidae
blue.
24 sep 2002: New species link Aplidium
glabrum. New
link "Gastropod
parasites and their coral hosts".
23 sep 2002: New species link Dendrodoa
grossularia.
April-August 2002
Many additional photographs and 17 additional ascidian species/morph
links were added, partly with the help of pictures of Ron Offermans and links
to Billy Swalla's Urochordate Phylogeny Website.
March 29 2002
The first approximately 60 species have been put on this site.
The thumbnails are ordered in Locality where the picture was taken, Family
and in a complete alphabetical overview.
Planned:
September-October 2002
At least 50 new ascidian species/morph
links will be added, using photographs taken in the Red Sea and Palau.
November-December 2002
Several new ascidian species/morph links will be added, using
photographs taken off Scotland.
February-March 2003
Photographs from Thailand will be added.