Got so busy with work stuff in October that I didnât have time to do any Halloween-related drawings. So Iâm doing them now.
Hereâs as Anatomically Implausible Skeleton of the Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt, Clavelina ossipandae, from the waters around Okinawa. Sea Squirts are little filter-feeding colonial blobby critters in the phylum Chardata- meaning theyâre very distantly related to us.
Skeleton Panda Sea Squirts have been popping up on SCUBA diving social media for a while with no formal taxonomic name. They were finally given a scientific name and a thorough study in 2024.
Source:
Hasegawa, Naohiro; Kajihara, Hiroshima. (2024). âGraveyards of Giant Pandas at the Bottom of the Sea? A Strange-Looking New Species of Colonial Ascidian in the genus Clavelina (Tunicata: Ascidiacea).â Species Diversity 53-64.

















