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can you do giant pyrosomes pls
Of course!
Have you seen the giant salp (Pyrostremma spinosum)?
I have now
Yes, in photos/videos
Yes, irl
I'm not sure
Pictured are two different colonies of giant salps, each is made up of many animals working together.
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[Image ID: a chain of sea salps; small, gelatinous animals floating near a coral bed. Each salp is nearly transparent, except for their innards. Some fish swim nearby. End ID]
[Image ID: a vertical chain of small, gelatinous animals called sea salps floating in the ocean. Each salp is nearly transparent except for the gut, visible from the outside. End ID]
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So here’s the mystery ascidian, yes it looks like a turd. I did however some work on it; I found the oral tentacles, still preserved in the alcohol from 1992. More importantly, one of the ascidians was slit open a while back, and through this opening (pic. 4) I saw some sort of folding inside the branchial sac. Apparenty this is a perfect character to distinguish the Stolidobranchia tunicates from the other orders of ascidians. So yeah, today I felt like proper amateur tunicate-expert.
In other news, the sepia-article is published in hard-copy today, and I have some great news about the shrimps I’m working on regarding the naming of these species, hint hint wink wink, so stay tuned!
A larvacean (tunicate larva) and a ctenophore! From a seawater sample.Â
Larvaceans exist in a sort of limbo between vertebrate and invertebrate. In their larval form, they have a notochord (visible in the picture) and nerve chord, the precursors to our spines. They lose these features once they become adults, and take on the appearance of jello sacs or colorful rocks.Â
Ctenophores usually have two sticky tentacles to catch prey. Unlike cnidarians (sea jellies/jellyfish) they have no stinging cells.Â
The larvacean is now dead (RIP) but the Ctenophore was transferred to a makeshift aquarium. We’ll see if it grows or not!Â
Also shout-out to my friends and lab partners Bianca and Michael for finding these!
