#tunicate

[strawlessandbraless]

Skeleton Panda Sea Tunicate Appreciation Post!!! 💀 🐼 🌊

Clavelina ossipandae, the skeleton panda sea tunicate is a species of colonial ascidian, also known as sea tunicates, a group of sessile, marine filter-feeding invertebrates. Just some funky little guys!

First discovered near Kume Island in Japan by local divers, pictures of the animal attracted media attention in 2017. But they weren't given their formal taxonomic description until 2024

Love to sea it 🌊

[chocolatechipkraken]

* * MERMAY 2026 IS NOW COMPLETE! * *

Who's your favorite?

MERMAIDS 1-10 MERMAIDS 11-20 MERMAIDS 21-31

Mermaids past...

[maple-altispinax23]

No, I will not take any questions about why mirabilis is in quotations.

“Spinosaurus” mirabilis

Cretotrigona prisca

Gasosaurus constructus

Pseudopolex tanlan

Pneumodesmus newmani

Burykhia hunti

[vintagewildlife]

Tunicates (Doliolum sp.) By: Douglas P. Wilson From: The Science of Zoology 1966

[toothybabies]

My fascination of the day: the tunicate

Just look at this guy.

PUT PLANKTON IN TUNICATE MOUTH.

NO PROBLEMS EVER IN TUNICATE MOUTH.

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

can you do giant pyrosomes pls

Of course!

Have you seen the giant salp (Pyrostremma spinosum)?

I have now

Yes, in photos/videos

Yes, irl

I'm not sure

Voting ended onMay 7

Pictured are two different colonies of giant salps, each is made up of many animals working together.

[spongerard]

Stage-lit Gerard as Star Tunicate Botryllus schlosseri

bonus B. schlosseri photos by me under the cut :)

orange version! on some mussels from a project a few years ago :)

[mugene-art]

Mini marine invertebrate stickers! One sticker sheet is A6 size (10.5cm x 14.8cm) Echinoderms: sea urchin, sand dollar, sea star Cnidarians: