#4933 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co

ladder ascidian

🇳🇱 Tweekleurige slingerzakpijp ·Botrylloides leachii

🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Marine Explorer (Dr John Turnbull) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Marine Explorer (Dr John Turnbull) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Marine Explorer (Dr John Turnbull) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Lucy Smiechura · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Janine Baker · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Seawolf, Lumb, Tyre reef:© Wayne Leifert (scubawayne) · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 5-7 Edith St, Edithburgh SA 5583, Australia:© David Spencer Muirhead · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Fisheries Wharf Hungry Point NSW, Australia:© Lucy Smiechura · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Rapid Bay Jetty, Rapid Bay SA 5204, Australia:© David Spencer Muirhead · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Botrylloides leachii is a colonial tunicate of the genus Botrylloides . Its unique methods of propagation and regeneration make it an ideal model organism for use in biological study of development, immunology, stem cells, and regeneration.

base stats

NL sightings 8iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,296iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).