Didemnidae (unidentified), (unidentified Didemnidae sea squirts)


21 Jan 2011 at OSGR: SY67 in Dorset, England

Record Summarycolony on underside of rock at low tide
Found as
Date21 January 2011
OS grid refOSGR: SY67
Lat/Lon50° 40’ N, 2° 30’ W
Vice CountyDorset, VC no: 9
CountryEngland

Notes: Cream coloured colonial seaquirt (Family Didemnidae, possibly Didemnum possibly maculosum), some transparent colonial seasquirt (Family Didemnidae, probably Diplosoma listerianum) and some slippery brown encrusting sponge (Halisarca dujardinii). The tubes are likely of a Polydora (polychaete), but possibly of an amphipod.

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