Grégory Dallavalle, Frankreich
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Lafargue, 1968
Identifying sea squirts is anything but easy. Unfortunately, there is still no comprehensive identification guide or reference work on sea squirts, unlike those available for marine fish, nudibranchs, or invertebrates.Once sea squirts have been correctly identified, only the basic information is usually available:
- Initial descriptions with schematic drawings, sometimes with photos, which can help with identification
- Solitary or colonial lifestyle
- Suspension feeders
- Incomplete distribution data
- Missing size and temperature information
- Member of the food chain / predators yes or no.
Lissoclinum weigelei is a sessile, colonial sea squirt found in European waters/the Mediterranean. We were unable to find any information about a sighting in Senegal, as reported in DORIS, but it cannot be ruled out. It is white to light beige in color, with striking chestnut-brown siphons.
Like most sea squirts, it has a soft and fragile structure.Depending on its location, sediments such as grains of sand can accumulate on the sea squirt and give it a crusty appearance.
Sea squirts settle on solid substrates, sometimes with algae in their immediate vicinity. Sea squirts are well on their way to becoming almost circumnavigational, mainly due to anthropogenic reasons (shipping).
Identifying sea squirts is anything but easy. Unfortunately, there is still no comprehensive identification guide or reference work on sea squirts, unlike those available for marine fish, nudibranchs, or invertebrates.Once sea squirts have been correctly identified, only the basic information is usually available:
- Initial descriptions with schematic drawings, sometimes with photos, which can help with identification
- Solitary or colonial lifestyle
- Suspension feeders
- Incomplete distribution data
- Missing size and temperature information
- Member of the food chain / predators yes or no.
Lissoclinum weigelei is a sessile, colonial sea squirt found in European waters/the Mediterranean. We were unable to find any information about a sighting in Senegal, as reported in DORIS, but it cannot be ruled out. It is white to light beige in color, with striking chestnut-brown siphons.
Like most sea squirts, it has a soft and fragile structure.Depending on its location, sediments such as grains of sand can accumulate on the sea squirt and give it a crusty appearance.
Sea squirts settle on solid substrates, sometimes with algae in their immediate vicinity. Sea squirts are well on their way to becoming almost circumnavigational, mainly due to anthropogenic reasons (shipping).
