golden star tunicate

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English[edit]

A colony of golden star tunicates

Etymology[edit]

After the way individuals arrange themselves around a central point like rays of a star.

Noun[edit]

golden star tunicate (plural golden star tunicates)

  1. Any of species Botryllus schlosseri of colony-forming sea squirts, native to European coastal waters but introduced worldwide.

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