Chain form! Salpa thompsoni from Antarctica! #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Antarctic SALPOTRONIC! #tunicateTuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Antarctic Pyura.. covered with sponges? maybe? #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Pyura bouvetensis! more weird stalked Antarctic tunicate love! #tunicatetuesday and yeah, they are related to you! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
"Molgula" ? MORE Antarctic tunicate love! #Tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
OH NEAT! Antarctic ecology! This nudibranch (not sure who) likely feeding? on this tunicate, Cnemidocarpa verrucosa #tunicateTuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Whoa. some unearthly Antarctic tunicates (and some Ophionotus brittle stars for good measure!) #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
MOAR Molgula from Antarctica! #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Years ago I was obsessed with these Antarctic "tulips"-eventually learned they were TUNICATES, Molgula pedunculata #tunicateTuesday Such crazy lookin' things! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
New Zealand Pyrosome insanity! #tunicateTuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#NewZealand SALP O TRONIC! A genus called Pegea! #tunicateTuesday love a short genus name! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
and while we're there a cool doliolid from #NewZealand for #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Perhaps an interesting question for fans of #TunicateTuesday!
LARVACEAN! Meet your very, VErY distant Chordate cousin! Swimmy swimmy! #tunicateTuesday youtu.be/EOOAyOruyIw?...
A gelatinous sea-creature. It has an oval globule on one end, and two tentacles extending from it with smaller bits attached. #Wildlife #Nature
I had no idea what this was... but since
@echinoblog.bsky.social
has been posting doliolids for #TunicateTuesday all day... now I do! I think this looks like the nurse stage.
Crappy pic, but it's the best I've got... from Balayan Bay, Anilao. #MarineLife 🌿
Two predatory tunicates that are white tubular gelatinous creatures that stretch into the water with mouths that behave similarly to what you would find with a Venus flytrap. They are on rocks and additional rocks can be seen behind them in an aquarium.
Predatory tunicates at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
#TunicateTuesday #MarineLife #Invertebrates #DeepSea #Megalodicopia #MBARI #MontereyCanyon #Photography #WestCoast
doliolid? I think? #tunicatetuesday
Doliolid fecal aggregate! #tunicatetuesday
Dolioletta gegenbauri from Florida! they do get around apparently! #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Doliolid feeding video! #tunicatetuesday youtu.be/cgVMDUZO7kg?...
Dolioletta from France! #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Dolioletta gegenbauri (wotta name!) A doliolid from Espana! #tunicateTuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Dolioletta from Mexico! #tunicatetuesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...