Description
Also known as Colonial Ascidian, Compound Ascidian, Sea Squirt, Sea Strawberry, Strawberry Sea Squirt, Tunicate.
Found in colonies on dead corals, over shallow sheltered waters.
They feed on suspended plankton and detritus.
Length - 3cm
Depth 1-20m
Widespread Indo-Pacific
Sea Squirts are often singular, but some are attached by a stalk or embedded in a jelly like substance these are colonial asidians.
They usually have two openings, one for oxygen and food and the other for waste and water to be pumped out of. Ref: x
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