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Pacific Arctic Benthic Species
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Pelonaia corrugata (Goodsir & Forbes, 1841)

Description
Solitary. Body elongated and bottle-shaped. Test wrinkled, coated with sand and mud, bearing fibrils towards the base.

Size
Up to 140 mm.

Habitat
Unattached and partly imbedded in sand or mud; from shallow water down to depths of 200 meters.

Biology
The young ascidian develops directly from attached embryo.

Feeding
Suspension feeder.

Distribution
Artic-Boreal distribution.
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