Tunicates

Trididemnum cyclops

• Group: Other

This colonial tunicate forms a soft shared sheet over seagrass and hard ground, filtering plankton from the water. Inside its tissues live obligate Prochloron algae, a green photosynthetic partner found almost nowhere else but in such sea squirts.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Ascidiacea › Aplousobranchia › Didemnidae › Trididemnum

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 251502.