Reproductive Data for Diplosoma similis

egg diameter	-
reproductive season	-
development	tadpole larval phase (1-5 minutes), or fragmentation of colony
occurrence	coral reefs, on dead coral or the green alga, Dictyosphaeria caverna e.g. Kaneohe bay, Oahu
references	D.S. Stoner in Life History and Population Biology of the Colonial Ascidian Diplosoma similis, 1989

Phylogenetic Information

phylum	Chordata (subphylum Urochordata)
class	Ascidiacea
order	Enteregona
family	Didemnidae
genus	Diplosoma
species	similis
reproduction method	sexual as well as asexual colony fragmentation