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Invertebrate communities of rock walls at Rocas Alijos and elsewhere are composed largely of sessile species, those that are permanently attached to the rocks, or sedentary animals, which, like sea anemones, have some capacity for movement but frequently remain in one place. Members of these communities include sponges, cnidarians, barnacles, tube-building gastropods, attached pelecypods, tube-building polychaetes, bryozoans, and tunicates.
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Wicksten, M.K. (1996). Anthozoans, Bryozoans, Brachiopods, and Tunicates of Rocas Alijos. In: Schmieder, R.W. (eds) Rocas Alijos. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2917-8_22
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