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Didemnum sp. - Long Island Ledges, Maine, Images


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MAINE IMAGES: Cobscook Bay, ME  New.  /   Cobscook Bay2, ME  New. /   Estes Head, ME  New.  /   Fort Island Narrows, ME /   Thrumcap Island, ME /   Long Island Ledges, ME  /   Wentworth Point, ME
MASSACHUSETTS IMAGES: Boston Harbor, /   Chatham,  MA /   Oak Bluffs, MA /   Orleans, MA /   Osterville Grand Island, MA /   Provincetown, MA /   Sandwich, MA /   Sandwich Town Beach, MA /   Sandy Bay, MA /   Stage Harbor, MA /   Strong Island, MA /   Vineyard Haven, MA /   Wellfleet Harbor, MA /   West Falmouth Harbor, MA /   Woods Hole (Eel Pond), MA /   Woods Hole (Iselin Dock), MA
NEW HAMPSHIRE IMAGES: Fort Point, NH /  New Castle Island, NH  New. /  Piscataqua River, NH
RHODE ISLAND IMAGES: Beavertail Point, RI /   Fort Wetherill, RI  /   Narragansett, RI
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October 9, 2006
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Image SB_LIL_ME017.		 Image SB_LIL_ME017. Tunicate colony of Didemnum sp. (tan color) exposed at low (neap) tide encrusting the vertical lower side of a boulder, above an aggregation of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis); parts of the colony are peeling off the rock. Didemnum sp. colonies were also observed growing on nearby subtidal seabed. Long Island Ledges, in the Hockomock Channel, west of Bremen Long Island, near Bremen, ME (43 deg 59.19 min N lat, 69 deg 24.07 min W lon). Intertidal (neap tide). October 9, 2006. Identified by P. Valentine (USGS). Observed by and photo credit: S. Baldwin (USGS). Location no. 73
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MAINE IMAGES: Cobscook Bay, ME  New.  /   Cobscook Bay2, ME  New. /   Estes Head, ME  New.  /   Fort Island Narrows, ME /   Thrumcap Island, ME /   Long Island Ledges, ME  /   Wentworth Point, ME
MASSACHUSETTS IMAGES: Boston Harbor, /   Chatham,  MA /   Oak Bluffs, MA /   Orleans, MA /   Osterville Grand Island, MA /   Provincetown, MA /   Sandwich, MA /   Sandwich Town Beach, MA /   Sandy Bay, MA /   Stage Harbor, MA /   Strong Island, MA /   Vineyard Haven, MA /   Wellfleet Harbor, MA /   West Falmouth Harbor, MA /   Woods Hole (Eel Pond), MA /   Woods Hole (Iselin Dock), MA
NEW HAMPSHIRE IMAGES: Fort Point, NH /  New Castle Island, NH  New. /  Piscataqua River, NH
RHODE ISLAND IMAGES: Beavertail Point, RI /   Fort Wetherill, RI  /   Narragansett, RI
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