Sycozoa sigillinoides

Usually white-brown in colour. This clearly stalked animal varies from a few to about 10cm long – the stalk is about 5mm diameter. The species is quite flexible and soft to touch, though the lower stalk is more firm and ‘plasticy’. The near transparent zooids can clearly be seen arranged around the common terminal cloaca. Similar species include Sycozoa gaimardi which is known from the magellanic and northern Antarctic Peninsula regions.

Pyura discoveryi

Usually red, with a tough, wrinkled, leathery test. Pyura discoveryi grows up to about 10cm long.

Pleuragramma antarcticum

Synoicum adareanum

Orange in colour. This mid-sized squirt can get up to 20cm high and about half this in diameter. It has a round to phallic shaped upper, which feels quite solid to touch. Like in Sycozoa species the clearly visible zooids are arranged circling around the common cloaca. The lower stalk, from which several upper parts may come from, feels much tougher

Molgula enodis

Small (a few cm) and usually orange or red with a stalk. The test is covered in fine hairs.

Styela wandeli

Pinkish-red, wrinkled and leathery, with a short stalk. Looks similar to Molgula enodis, but has longer siphons and a rough surface. This is a small ascidian, growing to only 1 or 2cm high.

Corella eumyota

Colour is ivory or grey. Corella eumyota sometimes has a short stalk, and grows up to 24cm long.

Molgula pedunculata

As its name suggests Molgula pedunculata usually has a long stalk or peduncle, which may have fine hairs on it. It is large and fairly translucent and is typically 10-20cm.