Tunicate

Eusynstyela hartmeyeri

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 3–20 m

A colonial sea squirt thought to have spread from the Red Sea into the eastern Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. It anchors to hard surfaces in shallow water and filters plankton, each colony built from many tiny clones.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Ascidiacea › Stolidobranchia › Styelidae › Eusynstyela

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 103892.