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🪱Sea pineapple
Halocynthia roretzi (Drasche, 1884)
The sea pineapple is an edible ascidian consumed primarily in Korea, where it is known as meongge (멍게), and to a lesser extent in Japan, where it is known as hoya (ホヤ) or maboya (マボヤ).
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Halocynthia roretzi
Conservation status
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAscidiacea
- ›orderStolidobranchia
- ›familyPyuridae
- ›genusHalocynthia
- ›speciesHalocynthia roretzi
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- classAscidiacea
- orderStolidobranchia
- familyPyuridae
- genusHalocynthia
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- classAscidiacea
- orderStolidobranchia
- familyPyuridae
- genusHalocynthia
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In other languages
Halocynthia roretzi (it), 멍게 (ko), морський ананас (uk), Halocynthia roretzi (nl), Halocynthia roretzi (sv), Halocynthia roretzi (fr) … and 13 more languages
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