Description:-

Colonial ascidium. The colonies present an orange colouration with a globular appearance. The colonies have the characteristic colourless translucent test with soft vermilion zooids with a yellow thorax along each side of branching common cloacal canals with common cloacal apertures at junctions of the canals and opaque white granular material in the soft test that surrounds each zooid. Some Prochloron is on the surface. Larvae, in the newly recorded colonies, have a circle of lateral vesicles around the anterior half of the trunk. The three antero-median adhesive organs are very shallow.

Threats:-

Not reported.

Remark:-

Habitat:-

Demersal; lives attached to hard substrata.

Synonyms:-

Amaroucium multiplicatum (Sluiter, 1909)

References:-

Kott, Patricia(2003) 'New syntheses and new species in the Australian Ascidiacea', Journal of Natural History, 37: 13, 1611 — 1653

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=249894

T . K . RENGANATHAN and Françoise MONNIOT, Additions to the ascidian fauna of India, Bull. Mus. nain. Hist, nal., Paris, 4 e soi., 6, 1984,