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Saturday, 1 November 2014

Sperm from a nearby colony enter the pharyngeal Siphon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascidiacea

The picture is more complicated for the philopatrically dispersed ascidians: sperm from a nearby colony (or from a zooid of the same colony) enter the pharyngeal siphon and fertilization takes place within the atrium. Embryos are then brooded within the atrium where embryonic development takes place: this results in macroscopic tadpole-like larvae. 

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