Tunicates - Aplidium breviventer

The peach-coloured colonies are soft, lobed, veryinflated underwater. The common
cloacal apertures protrude in chimneys at the cloacal channel crossings. These channels are visible from the colony surface, as the tunic above them is transparent. The zooids are irregularly lined up along these channels.
The zooids have a wide thorax, a short abdomen that is narrower than the thorax, and a short
post-abdomen separated by a narrow sectionbelow the bottom of the gut loop. The oral
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