Pyrosomella verticillata
Pyrosomella verticillata, the fire salp, is a species of colonial pyrosome with an Indo-Pacific distribution.
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Description
An individual P. verticillata zooid is typically about 4 mm long, while colonies are up to 5 cm long and 3 cm in diameter, and oval to oblong in shape. The wall of the colony is transparent and colorless.
Range & habitat
The species occurs in the warm Indo-Pacific and from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, and has also been reported from the southwest Atlantic off Rio de Janeiro.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 417348.