Description

Also known as Colonial Tunicate, Pacific Coast Jelly, Salp, Sea Jelly, Sea Squirt, Tunicate, Zooids.

Found singly or in colonies, during the day in very deep waters, rising to shallower waters at night to feed.
They feed on suspended zooplankton.
Length - 60cm
Depth - 0-250m
Widespread Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, Indo-Pacific

Pyrosomes are free-floating colonial tunicates made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrosoma_atlanticum