Nakamura, Y.

Hydrobiologia (1998) 385: 183. doi:10.1023/A:1003531812536

Blooms of tunicates Oikopleura spp. and Dolioletta gegenbauri in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, during summer

O. dioica was dominant in a first bloom, but O. longicauda dominated the second one. Population decrease between the blooms might have been caused by predation by anchovy larvae.