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Tunicate Larvae (Anomolous items)

Tunicate larvae inside eggs
Image by Wim van Egmond posted at Micropolitan Museum of Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2002

Botrylloides violaceus
Larvae with long tails containing a notochord and a nerve cord, much of which is lost during metamorphosis to the adult stage. Image by Riley C. Nolan, identified by Prof. Larry Harris, Isles of Shoals, University of New Hampshire, USA.

Botrylloides violaceus larvae
Image by Riley C. Nolan, identified by Prof. Larry Harris, Isles of Shoals, University of New Hampshire, USA

Botrylloides violaceus adult colony
Photo by Dann Blackwood (USGS) posted online

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