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Pyura haustor
Best found at Harbors and floats +
Class Ascidiacea +
Common name is Warty tunicate  +
Documentation requested false  +
Family Pyuridae +
Found at Whiting Harbor + , ANB Harbor + , Crescent Harbor +
Genus Pyura +
Order Stolidobranchia +
Origination status is Native +
Phylum Chordata +
Scientific name is Pyura haustor  +
SpecificEpithet haustor  +
Summary This common tunicate looks most like [[HalThis common tunicate looks most like [[Halocynthia igaboja|Sea Hedgehog (''Halocynthia igaboja'')]], but its siphons are longer, and generally paler and less "hairy." It is found intertidally, subtidally, and on floating man-made structures. This species is often covered by other sealife, making only the pink or red ends of the siphons visible, but it sometimes is found without sea life on it. The siphons are often quite long, and can be longer than the width of the body of the tunicate. The "skin" is described by Van Name (1945) as "tough and rather hard, usually discolored with mud and often completely encrusted, except toward the ends of the siphons, with sand, small stones, debris, or growth of hydroids or other organisms. [The test] is often raised into high, sharply defined ridges which meet and cross each other in various directions or may in some cases run roughly parallel."r may in some cases run roughly parallel."  +
Synonyms include Halocynthia haustor  + , Halocynthia johnsoni  + , Halocynthia washingtoni  + , Cynthia haustor  + , Cynthia erecta  + , Halocynthia haustor foliacea  +
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Categories Marine Invertebrate  + , Species  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 25 July 2013 09:51:57  +
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File:Pyura haustor Crescent Harbor Sitka.JPG + , File:Pyura haustor Jamestown Bay Sitka.JPG + FileTags
 

 

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