Sea squirt colony (Perophora namei)
Sea squirt colony (Perophora namei). Sea squirts (class Ascidiacea) are marine invertebrates which filter plankton from the water current which circulates through them. They are sedentary but have free-swimming larvae. In this species a colony consists of a number of zooids which bud off from a long slender stolon. Photographed in West Papua, Indonesia.
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