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Molgula is a common fouling animal found on pilings, docks, and ship hulls. It is an ascidean or sea squirt, and closely related to the vertebrates by having a central nervous system. It feeds by pumping water through a seive-like body wall and straining out food particles.
Gosner, K.L., A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore, 1979, Houghton Mifflin Company Barnes, R.D., Invertebrate Zoology, 1980, Saunders College and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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G.G. Lower
Three specimens |
Single animal from Hadley's Harbor, Feb., 1966 |
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