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• Soon, animals that need to attach themselves to a hard surface, like this 11)tunicate and these 12)featherduster worms, make the wreck their home.
• Tunicates can overgrow sea scallops and mussels, and they may affect other species of clams and worms that live in the seabed below the tunicate colony.
• The Leek is a hardy biennial, and produces an oblong, tunicated bulb; from the base of which, rootlets are put forth in great numbers. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
• Some true bulbs, such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and Dutch irises, are tunicated, with the scales completely enveloping the basal plate. SFGate: Top News Stories
• The hull here is rich in marine life - hydroids, tunicates, anemones and sponges.
• Other more sophisticated jelly creatures include some mollusks and snails, and tunicates - sea squirts, salps and larvaceans.
• Among the lower animals, up even to those first cousins of the vertebrated animals, the Tunicates, the two processes occur side by side, but finally the sexual method superseded its competitor altogether. The War of The Worlds
• Some tunicates are entirely pelagic; known as salps, they typically have barrel-shaped bodies and may be extremely abundant in the open ocean.
• It feeds mainly on sponges, but also takes tunicates, algae, zoantharians, gorgonians, hydroids, bryozoans, and seagrasses.
• This year, the team surveyed a larger area with tunicate coverage.