Rhopalaea crassa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Ascidiacea
- Order
- Aplousobranchia
- Family
- Diazonidae
- Genus
- Rhopalaea
- Species
- Rhopalaea crassa
- Scientific Name
- Rhopalaea crassa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Rhopalaea crassa
Rhopalaea crassa, is a species of tunicate in the family Diazonidae. Despite popular online sources, this species is yellow or rarely white. The cobalt blue species often called "Rhopalaea crassa" in error is actually Rhopalaea fusca. A different, undescribed Rhopalaea species with neon-colored networking has also often had this name erroneously attributed to it.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Rhopalaea abdominalis
- Rhopalaea bilobata
- Rhopalaea birkelandi
- Rhopalaea circula
- Rhopalaea cloneyi
- Rhopalaea crassa
- Rhopalaea defecta
- Rhopalaea desme
- Rhopalaea flemingi
- Rhopalaea fusca
- Rhopalaea hartmeyeri
- Rhopalaea idoneta
- Rhopalaea macrothorax
- Rhopalaea meridionalis
- Rhopalaea neapolitana
- Rhopalaea orientalis
- Rhopalaea perlucida
- Rhopalaea piru
- Rhopalaea respiciens
- Rhopalaea sagamiana
- Rhopalaea tenuis