Polycarpa aurata

Polycarpa aurata
	Polycarpa aurata, purple and yellow variant
	Nudibranch (Nembrotha lineolata) laying an egg spiral on a Polycarpa aurata off the coast of Metinaro, East Timor.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Tunicata
Class:	Ascidiacea
Order:	Stolidobranchia
Family:	Styelidae
Genus:	Polycarpa
Species:	P. aurata
Binomial name
	Polycarpa aurata; (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
	Ascidia aurata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834; Pandocia aurata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834); Pandocia botryllifera Michaelsen, 1912; Pandocia pizoni Hartmeyer, 1909; Polycarpa sulcata Herdman, 1882; Styela aurata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834); Styela pneumonodes Sluiter, 1895; Styela psoloessa Sluiter, 1890;

Polycarpa aurata, also known as the ox heart ascidian, the gold-mouth sea squirt or the ink-spot sea squirt, is a species of tunicate in the family Styelidae.

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