A word cloud showing the numbers of (a) languages represented in the literature on tunicates from the Ascidiacea World Database and (b) participants in four 2-week courses on tunicate biology and systematics at the Bocas del Toro Research Station between 2006 and 2014. English was the dominant language and is excluded from figure for clarity.

Publications: English - 408; German - 134; French - 181; Italian - 16; Russian - 10; Spanish - 4; Portuguese - 1; Latin -10; Norwegian - 1; Danish - 10; Japanese - 1; Swedish - 1.

Participants: English -28; Spanish -16; Portuguese - 10; Dutch -1; Chinese - 2; German -1; Italian -2; Hebrew - 2; Japanese - 1.