Sealife guideThe ink spot sea squirtPolycarpa aurata
Taxonomy
- Common name: Ink spot sea squirt, golden mouth sea squirt
- French name: Ascidie tache d'encre
- Scientific name: Polycarpa aurata (Boddaert, 1772)
- Family name: Styelidae
- Order name: Stolidobranchia
- Class name: The sea squirts [Ascidiacea]

The ink spot sea squirt (Polycarpa aurata) © Alexander Ogurtsov | Dreamstime.com
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