Microcosmus exasperatus
Microscosmus exasperatus is a species of tunicate in the family, Pyuridae, and was first described in 1878 by Camill Heller.
It is found in the warm, temperate and tropical seas of Australia, where it is found on the coastal shelves of New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia. It is also found in seas off the West Indies, east Africa and in the Red Sea. It has been found on many substrates including "pilings, stones, mangrove roots, and coral reefs, buoys, floats, and vessel hulls".
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 566448.