Order

Common name: Sea Squirts

Scientific name: Enterogona

Enterogona is an order of sessile marine invertebrates commonly known as sea squirts or tunicates. They are characterized by a tough outer tunic and a filter-feeding system. Members of this order are fascinating for their ability to regenerate and their unique position in the evolutionary tree, being closely related to vertebrates. In reef aquariums, they can add diversity and serve as natural filtration, but they require stable water conditions and may compete with corals for space and resources.

  1. Common name: Crater Sea Squirt
    Scientific name: Aplidium crateriferum
  2. Common name: Tabasco Tunicate
    Scientific name: Aplidium tabascum
  3. Dirty Sea-squirt or European Sea Squirt (Ascidiella aspersa), Norwegian Sea, Northern Atlantic, Norway, Europe
    Common name: dirty sea-squirt
    Scientific name: Ascidiella aspersa
  4. Colony of tunicates (Atriolum robustum), Maldives
    Common name: Robust sea squirt
    Scientific name: Atriolum robustum
  5. Common name: Tunicate
    Scientific name: Brevicollus tuberatus
  6. Seescheide Clavelina detorta
    Common name: Bluebell Tunicate
    Scientific name: Clavelina detorta
  7. Light-bulb sea-squirt, Keulenseescheide (Clavelina lepadiformis)
    Common name: Light bulb tunicate
    Scientific name: Clavelina lepadiformis
  8. Bluebell Tunicates or Blue Sea Squirt (Clavelina moluccensis)
    Common name: Bluebell Tunicate
    Scientific name: Clavelina moluccensis
  9. a colony of Purple tunicates (Clavelina picta) close-up
    Common name: Painted Tunicate
    Scientific name: Clavelina picta
  10. Clavelina robusta
    Common name: Stalked ascidian
    Scientific name: Clavelina robusta
  11. Common name: Bluebell Tunicate
    Scientific name: Clavelina viola
  12. Common name: Didemnum conchyliatum
    Scientific name: Didemnum conchyliatum
  13. Common name: Didemnum cuculliferum
    Scientific name: Didemnum cuculliferum
  14. Grüne Riffseescheide - Didemnum molle
    Common name: Urn Ascidian
    Scientific name: Didemnum molle
  15. Common name: Distaplia corolla
    Scientific name: Distaplia corolla
  16. Colony of Urn Ascidian or green barrel sea squirt (Didemnum molle) on the rock, Indian Ocean, Maldives, Asia
    Common name: Green Barrel Sea Squirt
    Scientific name: Eudistoma gilboviride
  17. Common name: Blue Velvet Sea Squirt
    Scientific name: Eudistoma reginum
  18. Seescheide Leptoclinides reticulatus
    Common name: Reticulated Leatherjacket
    Scientific name: Leptoclinides reticulatus
  19. Bluish encrusting sponge (Phorbas tenacior) in Mediterranean Sea
    Common name: Blue Encrusting Sponge
    Scientific name: Lissoclinum bistratum
  20. Sea squirts, tunicates, or ascidians living on the reef
    Common name: Blue Tunicate
    Scientific name: Lissoclinum patella
  21. Common name: Blue Velvet Sea Squirt
    Scientific name: Lissoclinum reginum
  22. Lollipop Tunicates (Nephtheis fascicularis), Boracay Island, Philippines
    Common name: Lollipop Tunicate
    Scientific name: Nephtheis fascicularis
  23. Common name: Perophora modificata
    Scientific name: Perophora modificata
  24. Common name: Incandescent Sea Squirt
    Scientific name: Phallusia julinea
  25. Colonial White-spotted Sea Squirt (Clavelina diminuta)
    Common name: White-spotted Sea Squirt
    Scientific name: Pycnoclavella diminuta
  26. sea squirts
    Common name: Yellow sea squirts
    Scientific name: Pycnoclavella flava
  27. Tunicate underwater off the coast of Bali
    Common name: Blue Club Tunicate
    Scientific name: Rhopalaea crassa
  28. Common name: Green-ringed Ascidian
    Scientific name: Sigillina signifera
  29. Common name: Blue Velvet Sea Squirt
    Scientific name: Trididemnum pigmentatum
  30. Closeup of the ascidian Botrylloides sp.
    Common name: Colonial Tunicate
    Scientific name: Trididemnum solidum