Polycitoridae

Family: Polycitoridae

Group: Marine Invertebrate, Species

Scientific Name	Common Name	Summary
Eudistoma molle	Red-dotted compound tunicate	This compound tunicate is identified by the contrast between the red zooids and their pale gelatinous tunic, as opposed to the somewhat similar and common Mushroom compound tunicate (Distaplia occidentalis), which is generally purple, pink or tan. It is most typically found growing among surfgrass Toothed Surfgrass (Phyllospadix serrulatus).
Eudistoma sp.	Clubbed sea squirt	This colonial tunicate is reported by O'Clair & O'Clair 1998 as the "clubbed sea squirt" (somewhat like Ritterella spp.) while the Light and Smith manual describes the species as forming "sheets up to 1 cm thick, often with lumps or pendant lobes 3-5 cm. long." The species in O'Clair & O'Clair 1998 may be the Eudistoma probable new species on page 355 of Lamb & Hanby 2005. It also looks rather like Stalked Compound Tunicate (Distaplia smithi).