Knowledge: urochordata

Links

Just Blue 
http://www.justblue.co.za

South African organization conducting research on the ascidians or tunicates, commonly known as sea squirts, mostly for the Coral Reef Research Foundation. Website contains many photographs of tunicates.

Ascidian Home Page for the United States 
http://nsm.fullerton.edu/~lamberts/ascidian/

Home page for Ascidian News, a twice yearly newsletter published by Charles and Gretchen Lambert, with recent worldwide publication citations, meetings abstracts and work in progress. The Ascidiaceae are a family in the Phylum Urochordata and are commonly known as tunicates or sea squirts.

Archives of Tunicata E-mail List 
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/tunicata.html

Subscription information and archives.

Urochordata 
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chordata/urochordata.html

Introduction to the Urochordata, with photos.

Tunicates Extraordinaire 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec00/t...

Interesting personal account by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of her observations on the eggs and larval stages of the Ascidians and Botryllus, accompanied by excellent photographs. Further accounts of Salps, Doliolids and Larvaceans with more photographs and video clips.

Tunicates of the West Coast of North America 
http://convoluta.ucdavis.edu/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=West_Coast_Tunicates

Many photographs of ascidians including both native and introduced species.

Dutch Ascidian Website 
http://www.ascidians.com/

Hundreds of images of ascidian species photographed all over the world, and a few photographs of salps (Thaliacea).

Ascidiacea 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascidiacea

Photograph and article from Wikipedia on the tunicates, including their life history, fertilisation and ecology.

The Salps (Class Thaliacea) 
http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/thaliacea.html

Information from the Earthlife Web on the colony-forming Pyrosomida and the non-colonial Salpida and Doliolida, including their description and their complex life cycle.

Salp 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp

Photograph and article from Wikipedia on this barrel-shaped tunicate, including its distribution, nervous systems, relationships and classification.

Sea Squirts: our Distant Cousins 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug98/tuni1.html

Article by Wim van Egmond on the life cycle and development of these Ascidians with several photographs.

Tunicate Eggs 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropolitan/marine/egg/frame2.html

Photomicrograph of three developing eggs.

Tunicate Larvae 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropolitan/marine/egg/frame3.html

Photomicrograph of two tadpole-like larvae developing inside eggs.

Oikopleura's Fishing House 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan01/oiko.html

Article with photographs by Wim van Egmond on this Larvacean and its delicate “house”.

Tunicates with Salad on the Side 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/rhtunic.html

Essay by Richard Howey on the tunicates and their biology with a look at other organisms that also foul the hulls of ships.

Larvaceans 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep03/jmclarva.html

Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine organisms.

The Tunicate, Styela: A Community Housing Project 
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan03/rhstyela.html

Article by Richard Howey about tunicates, and the many organisms that made their home on the outer surface of the specimen he was examining.

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