Pyrosoma sp.
Description
Large pelagic colonial tunicate, can be as long as 10-20m. Pyrosomas are characteristcally open at one end and form a point at the other. Unable to identifiy this species of Pyrosoma from these images but this example bears quite a close similarity to Pyrosoma spinosum which is found in the Gulf of Mexico.
| Item Type: | Image |
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| Title: | Pyrosoma sp. |
| Creator(s): | MacLean, M |
| Identification: | Jones, D. |
| Date: | 05 December 2010 |
| Time: | 07:36:53 |
| Copyright: | SERPENT project |
| Classification: | Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata (Chordates) > Subphylum Urochordata > Class Thaliacea > Order Pyrosomatida > Family Pyrosomatidae > Pyrosoma sp. Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata (Chordates) > Class Thaliacea > Order Pyrosomatida > Family Pyrosomatidae > Pyrosoma sp. |
| Species: | Pyrosoma sp. |
| Behaviour: | Suspended in the water column |
| Site: | Atlantic > South Atlantic > Angola - Block 31 |
| Site Description: | Midwater |
| Depth (m): | 856.08 |
| Latitude: | 6 deg 12' 21" S |
| Longitude: | 13 deg 43' 07" W |
| Northing: | 9313848.50 |
| Easting: | 358250.76 |
| UTM Zone: | 33S |
| Countries: | West Africa > Angola |
| Rig: | Seven Seas |
| Project Partners: | BP, Subsea 7 |
| Keywords: | Angola Southern Hemisphere Pyrosoma Colonial Tunicate |
| Deposited By: | Miss Moira MacLean |
| Deposited On: | 09 December 2010 |
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