Painted Sea Squirt (Ecteinascidia bandaensis)

Also known as Lightbulb Sea Squirt, Little Bottles, Sea Squirt, Tunicate, Zooids

Description

Also known as Colonial Tunicate, Lightbulb Sea Squirt, Little Bottles, Red-circled White Sea Squirt, Sea Squirt, Tunicate, Zooids.

Found often in dense colonies of cylindrical zooids. Along drop-off's and walls, over coral and rocky reefs.
They feed on detritus and plankton.
Length - 1.8cm
Depth - 5-30m
Widespread Indo-Pacific

Ascidian, also known as tunicates because their bodies are covered by a "tunic" a tough cellulose-like covering.
The other common name is sea squirt because when threatened they sometimes eject a jet of water. Ref: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=252494

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