Ciona savignyi (IMAGE)

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Ciona savignyi

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Before Plate Watch found it in Ketchikan in 2016, the solitary tunicate Ciona savignyi had not been seen in Alaska since 1903.

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Melissa Frey, Royal BC Museum, Canada

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