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Thetys vagina
Salp, Solitary Phase

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0401 (2005-03-15)

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date of photo Jul 1982

location Outer Carmel Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Salpidae

order Salpida

class Thaliacea

habitat Oceanic

notes During the season of upwelling these pelagic tunicates, salps, may be swept into the outer bay filtering plankton as they swim. Tunicates, our cousins, are in the Phylum Chordata. This is the solitary phase; the ropelike chain is the cloned, sexual, aggregate phase that later will be extruded, often several hundred individuals.

camera Nikon in Oceanic Housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Salp, Solitary Phase (photographer)

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