Botrylloides (unidentified), (unidentified Botrylloides colonial sea squirts)

16 May 2008 at OSGR: NS24 in Ayrshire, England

Taxonomic hierarchy:
Unidentified: Botrylloides (unidentified) (Unidentified Botrylloides Colonial Sea Squirts)
Genus: Botrylloides (a genus of colonial sea squirts)
Family: STYELIDAE (a family of sea squirts)
Order: STOLIDOBRANCHIA (a suborder of sea squirts)
Class: ASCIDIACEA (ascidians, sea-squirts)
Subphylum: TUNICATA (ascidians, sea-squirts, tunicates)
Phylum: CHORDATA (vertebrates)
Superphylum: DEUTEROSTOMIA (deuterostomes)
Clade: Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom: EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom: ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain: Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life: BIOTA (living things)

Record Summary	under rock, at low spring tide
Found as	Adult
Date	16 May 2008
OS grid ref	OSGR: NS24
Lat/Lon	55° 40’ N, 4° 50’ W
Vice County	Ayrshire, VC no: 75
Country	England

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