Animalia > Chordata > Ascidiacea > Stolidobranchia > Styelidae > Botrylloides > Botrylloides leachii

Botrylloides leachii

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
View Wikipedia Record: Botrylloides leachii

Predators

Coscinasterias calamaria[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1The Role of Asteroid Predators in the Organization of a Sessile Community on Pier Pilings, M.J. Keough and A.J. Butler, Marine Biology 51, 167-177 (1979)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0