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Old 12-07-07, 08:15 PM
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star sea squirt - Botryllus schlosseri

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I've just looked up lots of images of sea squirts and they seem to come in a vast variety of colours shapes and sizes. So a sea squirt it is then.
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Post #1. Definately a blue shark. You're all lucky to come back alive after that encounter
sneaky bugger hiding himself like that(i wonder where all the big teeth go?)

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It's not a lobster (no claws)...

It's not a crab (no claws again)...

It's not an eel (no teeth)...

Therefore...






















...it's a fish...

And no, I don't have a degree in marine biology (as surprising as that may be to some...)
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star sea squirt - Botryllus schlosseri

i think...
Hmmmm.......
Not convinced it its that one...
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Hmmmm.......
Not convinced it its that one...
I think it's just down to species variation.

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I'm a geographer...

It's the same sort of pattern, just different scale, slightly different shape, and different colour. A Google image search turns up a whole lot of seemingly different animals going under the name botryllus schlosseri, must be a lot of variation within the species.

Definitely some sort of colonial sea squirt anyway. I'll give myself the benefit of the doubt that it is a star sea squirt...

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Sea squirts are notoriously difficult to identify but they are fascinating little critters.
They are classified along with the vertebrates so are well developed animals despite their appearance! The colonial forms are known as zooids.
They are also hermaphrodites - see marine biology can be interesting and sexy at the same time!
I am with Al most likely Star Sea Squirt.
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