Marina Dive: Focus on SeaSquirt
This is the third post relating to a dive I did in North Marina a few weeks ago and this time I’m going to show you one of the harbour’s most common marine species, although it’s also the one with the funniest name…
Here’s a photo of a couple of them:
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Sea Squirt in North Harbour |
The Sea Squirt is a semi-transparent tube-like critter, averaging the size of an adult index finger.
The photo is in macro mode so you can just about see the close-up details of the sea squirt, and you’ll notice some colouration around the opening at the top of the body.
This helps identify it as a yellow ringed sea squirt (ciona intestinalis).
Sea squirts have a sac-like body with two siphons (one to inhale and the other to exhale) through which they siphon water from which they extract nutrients.
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Other Posts from this Dive
This post was written following a Dive in North Harbour on 14th April 2007, for other posts relating to this dive, including more photos, please checkout the following:
