Styela angularis

Styela angularis (angular sea squirt) is a solitary, hermaphroditic ascidian tunicate that is found along the coast of Southern Africa from Lüderitz Bay in Namibia to the Eastern Cape.^[2]

Styela angularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Tunicata
Class:	Ascidiacea
Order:	Stolidobranchia
Family:	Styelidae
Genus:	Styela
Species:	S. angularis
Binomial name
Styela angularis (Stimpson, 1855)[1]
Synonyms [1]
Cynthia angularis Stimpson, 1855 Tethyum costatum Hartmeyer, 1911 Styela costata (Hartmeyer, 1911)

Description

Order of 100 millimetres (3.9 in) tall, with a tough flexible opaque hexagonal test tapering down to a narrow base peduncle. Stands upright on the substrate. Cloacal siphon terminal, and oral siphon slightly ventral and posterior.

Behaviour

Occurs singly on rocks or other hard surfaces where water is clean and fairly fast moving. Often covered by epibionts.