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Blue sea squirt, Rhopalaea sp.


This solitary, sessile ascidian has a transparent test enclosing a perforated pharynx lined with a sieve-like apparatus for filtering food from the water column. The animal may be tinged in a variety of different colors.





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Blue sea squirt, Rhopalaea sp.

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