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Sandy Sea Squirt

Molgula occidentalis

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) melissameadows, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Georgia.

United States	290
Georgia	86
South Carolina	72
North Carolina	6

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Sea Squirts · Ascidiacea
Order	Stolidobranchia
Family	Molgulidae
Genus	Molgula

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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