This blog is dedicated to the environmental well-being of our Florida coastal habitat.

This blog is
dedicated to the environmental well-being of coastal habitat.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Leathery sea squirt

Squeeze me, please.
Aim the siphon (lower left) away from you. 
Sea squirts are tunicates in the phylum Chordata.
  They are round gelatinous animals with two short siphons projecting from the body. 
Water laden with planktonic food is drawn into one of these tubes, 
the food is digested and the water is forced out the other tube.