FIGURE 5. Didemnidae. A–E in The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz

FIGURE 5. Didemnidae. A–E: Didemnum sp. 1, undescribed species. A: whole colony on kelp holdfast. B: detail of tunic surface showing one cloacal opening. C: bifurcated testis from a zooid showing numerous coils of the sperm duct; D: tunic spicules. E: two cryptically colored lamellarid nudibranchs above a colony piece from which they were collected. F, G: Didemnum sp. 2. F: numerous small colonies or pieces of same colony; G: two cross sections of a different colony showing distribution of spicules. Scale bars: A, 1 cm; B, 1.5 mm; C, 0.1 mm; D, 20 µm; E, 1 cm.; F, 9 mm; G, 4 mm.Published as part of Lambert, Gretchen, 2019, The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz, pp. 401-436 in Zootaxa 4657 (3) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/337188